On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:00:31 -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:

>> I have managed to do this using my Ubuntu machine as client and it
>> works fine except for the screen resolution.
>>
Curiosity: why use VNC when you can use SSH? The RPi default installation
starts sshd and IIRC "X11Forwarding yes" is set by default - more or less
has to be otherwise you couldn't run GUI programs on the RPi.

IME the screen colour palette is usually better with a forwarded X11
connection than it is with VNC.

>> I need to tell the RP that it has a high resolution screen even when
>> none is attached.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
I just ran a test here by executing "zenity --calendar", both locally and
over X11 from my RPi and it looks very much as if the copy of zenity
running on the RPi is getting the screen size passed to it from this
laptop because the zenity calendar display put up by the RPi is very
similar in size and font size to that shown by a locally run copy.

To double check, I ran up a full screen application on this laptop and
another copy via ssh on my house server: both put up identical sized
windows containing identical font sizes: this laptop is a Lenovo T440
with an 1600x900 display while the house server has an ancient flat VGA
display.

I'm running Raspbian on the RPi and 64-bit Fedora 27 on both laptop and
house server, but I'd be surprised if Ubuntu doesn't do exactly the same
as Fedora.

HTH


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