Hello Marcello! discsox schrieb: > Thank you very much for your advice and I apologize because I am really new > to this... > I had partial success by doing the following: > - create a device "monitor" under "Devices" where I specify resolution and > refresh rate (e.g. 1600x1200) > - Add the monitor device to the VMware hardware type that specifies the > graphics card and monitor > - Assign the thinclient in question to the VMware hardware type > > Is this the correct way of doing this?
Yes, this is correct. However, you could have assigned the monitor to the (virtual) ThinClient instead of the hardware type so that only this one gets that resolution. > This configuration has the strange effect that the desktop has a resolution > of 1152x768... which is still better that 800x600. > Rdesktop ends up with a resolution of 1152x744 which is equivalent to the > client resolution minus the taskbar. > > It might be a limitation of running the client under VMware ESX3i. Yes, ESX does have a size limit which seems to be 1180x885 Pixel for Windows Clients, Linux is harder to test because it does not dynamically resize under ESX but I expect it to be somewhere around that limit, too. With VMware Workstation and Server the limit is much higher, you should be able to get 1920x1200 at least. The driver offers up to 2360x1770. This might be a result of the higher version of the virtual machines used by those variants. I suspect that the older VM types only offer a 4 MB frame buffer (1180 x 885 x 4 byte is a bit under 4 MB) while the newer would indicate a 16 MB frame buffer. -- Bye, Tobias Abt levigo systems gmbh ----------- ein unternehmen der levigo gruppe Max-Eyth-Strasse 30 Telefon: 07031 / 4161-10 D-71088 Holzgerlingen Telefax: 07031 / 4161-11 Geschäftsführer: Oliver Bausch http://systems.levigo.de/ Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 245 180 USt-ID: DE813226078 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
