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How to change screen resolution of VNC server without restarting it?

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Is it possible to change the resolution of the viewer specified during starting of the vnc server with the geometry command line argument? I have a vncserver configured for a wide screen monitor but I want to view it on a 1024x768 screen.

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Fix for: How to change screen resolution of VNC server without restarting it?

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This same question was asked a while ago on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15816/changing-the-resolution-of-a-vnc-session-in-linux The accepted answer from Nathan Fellman: Real VNC server 4.4 includes support for Xrandr, which a…

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