The Ability to set the screen resolution when connecting to a device

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When you connect to a server the screen resolution can be quite small and there is no way to change the default window size, having the ability to change or set a default connection resolution size or control it in the session would be very helpful, it is very frustrating when you are viewing a sever at 800x600 when you have 1920 x 1080 monitor.

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Add better handling of high resolution Host and low resolution Guest connections

Partner has a high resolution monitor and is connecting into a session where the console output is a lower resolution. He is able to stretch the session to make it larger, but it becomes pixellated and grainy. Please update the client to improve handling of this situation.


CW#7691899

Add feature to provide high resolution access to headless systems.

It seems that if the HDMI connector isn't connected or there is no monitor plugged in when I connect from Screenconnect it was giving me a small black square and it wasn't working at all. Then I changed the drivers to use Microsoft Basic Adapter and I am limited to 800x600 or 640x480.


I really can't use that remote PC on a 800x600. Is there a way to get higher resolution with ScreenConnect? Maybe you have a special monitor driver i could install or anything else? When I connect via RDP, it uses a special video driver that allow me to be on 1920x1080.

Screenconnect Display Driver

I have Screenconnect installed on a virtual machine, this computer is not conencted to a monitor or anything, so its just using the windows default display adapter, with a resolution of 1024x768.


It would be nice if there was a screenconnect display driver of sorts, so i can set a "virtual resolution" with the VM.

Change resolution temporarily to match connecting machine

I'd like the ability to temporarily change the resolution of the targeted machine to match the controlling machine. For example, I often connect to customers that have large 27" 4K displays from my 15" laptop with 1366x768 res. This results in seeing their full screen on mine and everything is very small. I can change the zoom, but that makes it difficult. The only solution i have right now is to change the resolution on the target machine and hope i remember to change it back b efore i disconnect.I'd like the ability to set a pre-determined resolution and have it change to that when i connect and change it back to what it was before after i disconnect.

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jchornsey

Has anyone addressed this?  Every other remote client I've ever used can do this and, in this respect, SC has been a big disappointment.

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Davison

Please address this ASAP.  Many server systems are headless and it's quite frankly ridiculous that the default resolution is 800x600.  Many dialog windows won't even fit in that space anymore.

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Jason Tenpenny

so, a year later, how close are we to getting this?

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Eric Frace

This a feature that we would love as well. Need it all of the time! Who has a monitor on servers anymore?

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This is the most frustrating missing feature. I'm considering a different product just because this hasn't been addressed after multiple requests for it.

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Ryan Smith

PLease add this - development of webpages has moved past this resolution size now, and there are pages where I cannot click on buttons anymore due to the small resolution. The SonicWall appliance web portal for one.

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Georges Khairallah

We're also coming from LogMeIn, which has that functionality (albeit doesn't work well), but were very disappointed to see that this is not even a feature at all with the Control product. Is this in the roadmap at all?

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Tony Fernandez

Any luck with this? It's been over 2 years and still nothing.

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Jason Tenpenny

so I talked with someone at Automation Nation and they basically said they haven't started on it. Adding this feature would be a complete rebuild of the way the program displays the remote screen.


That being said, it still needs to happen. It's an important feature to have when everything is being designed for widescreen devices these days.

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Leon

Very significant competitive advantage/disadvantage...



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