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hey guys

I am using Remote Desktop Connection Manager for the first time and I cant for the life of me manage to make the RDC sessions fit into my screen properly

I have to always scroll across


Remote Desktop not full screen

and up and down which is very annoying

Have played around with the resolutions in the client options but no luck


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Cayenne
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J500 Oct 1, 2015 at 13:35 UTC

I have the following option checked. The size will adjust to whatever monitor it is on when you connect. If you move it to another monitor or adjust the screen size you can just reconnect and it will correct itself.

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BSOD'D Oct 1, 2015 at 06:34 UTC

Isn't there a custom option that you can play with to get it right?

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Scott Alan Miller Oct 1, 2015 at 06:40 UTC

I believe that BEFORE you connect, you can pick the resolution in the connection utility.

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Michael.SC
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Oct 1, 2015 at 06:42 UTC

Right click and go to Properties > Remote Desktop Settings to change the settings for a specific connection. If you want to change everything then you can edit or create a new settings profile by going to Tools > Options > General > Default Group Settings (and Remote Desktop Settings specifically to change the display size).

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Sandeep Nagar
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Oct 1, 2015 at 07:28 UTC

change the remote screen resolution after changing the RDM window size is by clicking on the "Reconnect" button

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jordinetboy Oct 1, 2015 at 10:09 UTC

How commentary, i like much more Royal TS for Remote control manager, but it's app is pay.

I love Royal TS software.

http://www.royalapplications.com/ts/win/features

PS: Michael Ask you question.

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Drekk0 Oct 1, 2015 at 11:58 UTC

Thanks guys Ill give those a go

I was playing with the client resolution settings but I was still connected to the servers, and it was not adjusting, Ill try adjust then reconnect

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J500 Oct 1, 2015 at 13:35 UTC

I have the following option checked. The size will adjust to whatever monitor it is on when you connect. If you move it to another monitor or adjust the screen size you can just reconnect and it will correct itself.

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darktalos25
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Oct 1, 2015 at 18:43 UTC

Before you remote in do Options > Display. It should be a slider bar.

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zuphzuph Oct 1, 2015 at 21:33 UTC

mRemoteNG is a better choice imo. It's freeware without the crap too.

http://www.mremoteng.org/

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Colts
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Oct 3, 2015 at 03:41 UTC

Correct.. the settings are in the RDP window (look for the advanced/more options button), set the resolution to full screen, and tell it to adjust to the client desktop.. should work.

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jhavens Dec 2, 2016 at 01:54 UTC

Has anyone figured out how to make either the thumbnails or the sessions themselves take up equal parts of the screen?

For example, lets say I have 8 machines in my RDCMon. How can I get it so that either each of the 8 thumbnails takes up 1/8trh of the screen at the same time, or, make each session take up 1/8th of the screen at the same time?

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marimuruganveerabathiran Dec 15, 2016 at 17:14 UTC
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Right click on the top group and click properties, go to "display settings" enable check box for "Scale docked..." and "Scale undocked..." Make sure the subgroups have "inherit from parent" checked.

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sundaravadivelu.gunasekaran Feb 1, 2017 at 04:31 UTC
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Thank you so much!
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sundaravadivelu.gunasekaran Feb 1, 2017 at 04:31 UTC
Thank you so much!
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mileshart Mar 20, 2017 at 09:54 UTC
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mRemoteNG has terrible support for resolutions

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subasris Apr 11, 2017 at 06:52 UTC
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Worked!! Edit->Properties->Remote Desktop Setting and check ->Same as Client area. Reopen the RDC and works!! Thanks to J500.

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geniocinelli Apr 18, 2017 at 14:51 UTC
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Thank You!

Genio

J500 wrote:

I have the following option checked. The size will adjust to whatever monitor it is on when you connect. If you move it to another monitor or adjust the screen size you can just reconnect and it will correct itself.


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ITechiePro
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Apr 27, 2017 at 05:07 UTC

Thank you marimuruganveerabathiran!!

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akashkhudia Apr 30, 2017 at 19:16 UTC
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Remote Desktop not full screen
The best way is to check these two options in display settings. They will be active if you uncheck "Inherit from parent" checkbox.

Check both scale docked / undocked window to fit the window.

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Brent Sipl
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May 5, 2017 at 00:23 UTC

On a very similar topic I could not get my remote screen to stretch to a scale I could see easily. My screens are high dpi and the image was always too small. It would only scale smaller than native. Resolved it by changing the properties of the application! Find the shortcut in the start menu folder, (like C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu), right-click it, and choose Properties. Go to Compatibility tab and under "Override high DPI scaling behavior" change "Application" to "System." Then it stretches it to the system's scaling size. Mine is set to 150%.

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damianos Feb 2, 2018 at 12:07 UTC
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Go to Compatibility tab and under "Override high DPI scaling behavior" change "Application" to "System"

this work for me

thx

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