Set X11 geometry/title of vncviewer

[Brent W. Baccala]

Hi -

Is there any way to set the X11 geometry and title of the TurboVNC vncviewer from the command line?

vncviewer -geometry +0+0 -title MyTitle   doesn't seem to work.

[DRC]

What are you trying to accomplish, specifically?

[DRC]

The reason I ask is that there are a couple of ways to change the geometry, but I need to know what your desired workflow is first.  Are you using the TurboVNC Server?  Do you care about automatic desktop resizing, or do you want a static geometry?

On 9/17/20 2:39 PM, Brent W. Baccala wrote:

[Brent W. Baccala]

I'm positioning the clients in a grid to see all of the student desktops in a virtual classroom.  So I want a static geometry with scaling specified on the command line.  Also, when the presenter clicks on a student window they get connected to that desktop using another, full-screen viewer.  So I also need to set the window's title, because the window manager uses the title of the window to determine which student desktop to connect with.

[DRC]

You can set the static geometry in one of two ways:

1. Pass '-geometry WxH' to /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver when starting the session, then pass '-desktopsize server' to the viewer when connecting.

2. Pass '-desktopsize WxH' to the viewer when connecting.

You can set the TurboVNC desktop title by passing -desktop to /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver when starting the session.  There may be a way to change the title on the client, but that isn't a feature of the TurboVNC Viewer.

DRC

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