RDP auto resizing

What is your session resizing mode?

Hi Jonathan,

It's set to "Smart resizing"

In smart sizing, the image will shrink while maintaining the resolution aspect ratio when your wndow gets smaller and will stay centered if you resize bigger than the session's resolution.
Can you confirm this is what is happening?

That is what is happening, but it looks like I've got the same sizing method set on my windows RDM install.

It's possible windows lets the session scale up when resized bigger at the expense of image quality.
Is that what you were expecting?

Hi Jonathan,

I must have been misremembering since it's been so long since I used my windows VM for RDM. The setting I should have been using was "smart reconnect" which resizes it. There's still a small difference between the windows and linux RDM in respect to smart reconnect. In Windows when I resize RDM it resizes the window correctly (changing the resolution) and is seemless for the user. On Linux, when I resize RDM it does smart reconnect and I get our login disclaimer screen where I must hit OK for it to reconnect. This makes me think that in Windows RDM is actually using RDP dynamic resizing where Linux RDM is actually doing a reconnect.

One thing to keep in mind is that RDM Windows uses, by default, the microsoft RDP activex bundled with Windows.
RDM Linux uses FreeRDP. If you change your RDM Windows session to use FreeRDP, do you have the same behavior linux does?

I can check that after a few meetings today. I've been using Windows RDM in wine for around a year and farming out the RDM sessions to Linux xfreerdp (through RDM templates), which has an option called "/dynamic-resolution" that I've been using to get the dynamic resolution stuff.

Oh.
I don't think even windows supports this feature right now.
I've opened a ticket to look into this.

It does change resolution. Under the Actions tab, enable smart sizing and smart reconnect. I cannot however find these settings in the config. I'd love to spread these settings to all my RDP entries!

Hi,

If you want to change the screen sizing mode on all your entries, you can go in the preference menu -> Session Type -> RDP -> Screen sizing mode.


As long as your entries' screen sizing mode is set to default, they all should use your preferred sizing mode.


We are working on Dynamic Resolution so that's also coming.

Let me know if this answers your question.