[mythtv-users] Have remote VNC screen at higher resolution?

[Johnny Russ]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com>wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:38 PM, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I have an SD FE/BE. I keep the default screen resolution at 640x480
> > (ie the resolution of the TV). However when I connect via VNC to do
> > various management tasks the low resolution makes many dialog boxes
> > difficult and occasionally impossible to work with. I know one
> > option is to increase the resolution on the BE. However, it is my
> > understanding that the best picture will result if the resolution is
> > set at the resolution of the TV. Also I occasionally do small task
> > like updates, etc locally with TV as my monitor. If the resolution
> > is higher than 640x480 it is very difficult to read anything on the
> > TV. A while back on another machine I had setup NX server and had it
> > create a separate session when I logged in that ran at the
> > resolution that I wanted. I don't need the performance improvements
> > that NX provides and I don't really want to deal with maintaining it
> > and its security settings etc just for my local network.
> >
> > Is there a good way to make my remote VNC screen run at a higher
> > resolution? I have tried looking around the VNC documentation but
> > there are several different VNC servers and so many different
> > settings that it is difficult to track down the best way to
> > accomplish this (I suspect there several ways). Or is there some
> > other way you guys use for remote connections that gives you a
> > higher resolution screen rather than the low resolution used for the
> > TV?
>
> Instead of using VNC, use X-Forwarding.
>
> ssh -Y user at mythbox.ip.address.here
>
> Once you're logged in, you can do something like this:
>
> $ mythfrontend -O ThemePainter QT
>
> That will run a new mythfrontend process using the QT painters instead
> of OpenGL and the GUI will appear on the machine from which you logged
> in, not the host machine. There is another command-line option for
> changing the resolution, but for some reason I can't find it right
> now. I'm sure someone else will chime in with that info. Something
> like -geometry 800x600?
>
> -Brad
>
>
I forgot about X forwarding. That is a good suggestion. I am usually logging
in from a windows machine so I would need to set up an x server on my
machine. When I connect remotely I am not usually messing with the frontend.
Ideally I would like to just have the whole desktop available.
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