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When I connect from my home Ubuntu to my office PC the resolution is too great and all the fonts and other screen items are so tiny so I cannot see anything.

This is due to my new monitor at home with 4K resolution. When I connect to Windows 10 I have to choose "use client resolution option" otherwise if I choose "custom resolution" option Remmina makes screen smaller but does not change resolution.

Windows 10 does not allow to change any display setting from a remote session.

What I want to do is to make fonts, icons etc. larger on Windows 10 when I connect to it from Ubuntu 16.04 using Remmina.

Any ideas?

P.S. The left-most icon "Fit remote resolution" is disabled.

Vassili
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I could simply scale by using "Toggle dynamic resolution update" menu icon in the floating tab once connected. enter image description here

This fixes my issue

upHiller
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Recent remmina versions can set RDP remote windows desktop scaling factor. From the global preferences menu -> RDP. But you need an updated remmina version and an OS (windows 8.1 or higher) that supports scaling factor. Upgrade remmina following instructions on the main website http://www.remmina.org. We provide a PPA for ubuntu 16.04. If you already enabled local scaling on your local PC, and usually this is the case when using a 4K monitor, you should also play with the remmina scaler function to neutralize the Xorg/Unity scaling, because remmina can't currently do to it.

giox069
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Better use freerdp.
After you installed it you use it like this from a terminal:

xfreerdp /u:username /p:password /w:1366 /h:768 /v:ipaddress /smart-sizing +auto-reconnect

The username, password, ipaddress should be the ones of the remote desktop. +auto-reconnect allows for a stable connection in a poor network.

Replace the resolution 1366 and 768 also by the resolution of the host. The rdp window scales smoothly.

I tried several other RDP clients, but those did not work.....

wgr
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Peter
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You should choose "custom resolution" and then set scaling display from toolbar, as I know this is the only usable solution now

Pavel Niedoba
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