Benno, To rotate the screen, your best bet is to use whatever rotation features the viewer platform provides. Xvnc doesn't currently support XRANDR and when it does, it will probably provide resize but not rotation.
Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: Benno Senoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 January 2006 16:52 > To: James Weatherall > Cc: 'John Aldrich'; 'David Rogoff'; [email protected] > Subject: Xvnc rotation possible ? (90 degrees) , Was: Re: > Dynamic desktop sizing? > > Hi all, > sorry for responding to this old thread. > > I'm interested in rotating the screen with xrand using Xvnc. > Is that possible ? > > For example: > > Xvnc runs on a linux PC , Xvnc set to resolution 800x600 > > since the screen on another machine is physically rotated by > 90 degrees, > I'd like Xvnc rotating all the output so that the > vnc client on the other machine sees still a 800x600 but with rotated > contents. > > Is that possible in Xvnc or does it not support XRAND rotation yet ? > Or is the default linux version of Xvnc compiled without RAND > support ? > > > I tried to use the xrandr cmdline tool on a Xvnc display but it says > extension missing. > > Please let me know, > > thanks, > Benno > http://www.linuxsampler.org > > > James Weatherall wrote: > > >Hi John, > > > >You are incorrect. > > > >Resizing the desktop when using VNC Server for Windows is > done by resizing > >it in the normal way for Windows. Resizing X desktops is > possible using the > >XRANDR extension, which is something that we'll probably be > adding support > >for in VNC server soon. > > > >What David appears to want is for VNC Viewer to tell VNC > Server how large > >the desktop should be, which is something we're looking into > supporting, > >too. > > > >Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich > >>Sent: 14 November 2005 17:28 > >>To: 'David Rogoff'; [email protected] > >>Subject: RE: Dynamic desktop sizing? > >> > >>Well, I'm not a developer or anything, so I won't say that I > >>know for sure, > >>but I don't think what you're wanting to do is possible... > >>any of it. In > >>*nix, you can start servers automagically at startup, but I > >>don't believe > >>there is *any* way to dynamically resize the desktops, either > >>in Windows or > >>*nix or Mac. Some distributions of VNC will allow you to > >>essentially magnify > >>the remote desktop, but that's all it is, is a mangification > >>-- you increase > >>the size of everything, including the icons, mouse cursor, > >>etc. For what you > >>want, you probably need either Citrix or PC Anywhere, or > similar app. > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Behalf Of David Rogoff > >>Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:15 AM > >>To: [email protected] > >>Subject: Re: Dynamic desktop sizing? > >> > >> > >>Anybody? Did this make it to the list? > >> > >>David Rogoff wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi all. > >>> > >>>I've been looking for info on dynamic desktop resizing, and hoped > >>>someone had the latest. I'm looking to do a couple of > >>> > >>> > >>things. First, > >> > >> > >>>I'm running the server in Linux (RH Ent 3&4) and the client > >>> > >>> > >>on Win2k/XP > >> > >> > >>>and Mac (Chicken of the VNC). > >>> > >>>The first thing I'm looking for is a way to start a server > >>> > >>> > >>session from > >> > >> > >>>the client side, like Citrix or Exceed has. > >>> > >>>Related to that, I'm trying to figure out how to > >>> > >>> > >>automatically start the > >> > >> > >>>server with the largest dimensions that can be displayed on > >>> > >>> > >>my client, > >> > >> > >>>somehow automatically feeding the screen size. > >>> > >>>Finally, it would be great to dynamically resize the > >>> > >>> > >>desktop size since > >> > >> > >>>I often reconnect to a server session from various clients > >>> > >>> > >>on machine > >> > >> > >>>with different screen resolutions. I see the "Allow > >>> > >>> > >>dynamic desktop > >> > >> > >>>resizing" option in the VNC client, but can't find anything about > >>>support for this in various VNC servers. I also read > >>> > >>> > >>somewhere that > >> > >> > >>>because of the limitations of the X server, this can't work > >>> > >>> > >>with the > >> > >> > >>>Unix/Linux server. Can someone shed some more light on this? > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>> > >>> David > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>VNC-List mailing list > >>>[email protected] > >>>To remove yourself from the list visit: > >>>http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>VNC-List mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>To remove yourself from the list visit: > >>http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > >>_______________________________________________ > >>VNC-List mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>To remove yourself from the list visit: > >>http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >VNC-List mailing list > >[email protected] > >To remove yourself from the list visit: > >http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
