[X4U] VNC client that can resize

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 14 09:14:28 PST 2005


On 12/14/05 2:18 AM, Simon Forster <simon-lists at ldml.com> wrote:

> On 14 Dec 2005, at 09:30, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:51 pm, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's what I thought originally. However, I recently installed a  VNC
>>> client from RealVNC on my Windows machine at work and I was able to  connect
>>> to my iMac using the "Scale to window size" option checked. It shrunk  the
>>> iMac's screen image to fit on my 1024x768 PC monitor. So my question
>>> remains: Is there an OS X program that can do what the Windows program can?
>> 
>> I wouldn't be at all surprised if Apple's Remote Desktop can do
>> this. But it's neither Free, free, nor cheap. If you're in the
>> market for it anyway, let me know & I'll install VNC on the LAN
>> here & test.
> 
> ARD does do this - although you can only scale down

That's great, but to confirm Stroller's comment I'm looking for a freeware
or shareware client. Does anyone here use a client other than Chicken of the
VNC?




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