I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X. I'm connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using
Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so I want to reduce
the remote workstation's resolution. However, when I try using the
Display Configuration Settings tool, the confirmation dialogue doesn't
show on my laptop until it's timed out and auto-closes - discarding the changes.

Is there another way I can tell Plasma 5 to use a different resolution?

Sorry for a newbie-type question, but Internet searches are just
bringing up how to use the tool, which isn't helpful.

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On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 14:54 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X. I'm connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so I want to reduce
the remote workstation's resolution. However, when I try using the
Display Configuration Settings tool, the confirmation dialogue doesn't
show on my laptop until it's timed out and auto-closes - discarding the changes.

Close systemsettings via Alt-F4 after applying new resolution so that
it won't be able to revert the change.

Is there another way I can tell Plasma 5 to use a different resolution?

Sorry for a newbie-type question, but Internet searches are just
bringing up how to use the tool, which isn't helpful.

Rong

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On 11/09/2024 22:40, Rongrong wrote:

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 14:54 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X. I'm
connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using
Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so I want to reduce
the remote workstation's resolution. However, when I try using the
Display Configuration Settings tool, the confirmation dialogue doesn't
show on my laptop until it's timed out and auto-closes - discarding the
changes.

Close systemsettings via Alt-F4 after applying new resolution so that
it won't be able to revert the change.

Hopefully the local WM won't intercept that and close the VNC session :-)

You can use xrandr from CLI to size and many other parameters.

alexd

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On 2024-09-11 15:40, Rongrong wrote:

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 14:54 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X.
I'm
connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using
Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so I want to reduce
the remote workstation's resolution. However, when I try using the
Display Configuration Settings tool, the confirmation dialogue doesn't
show on my laptop until it's timed out and auto-closes - discarding
the
changes.

Close systemsettings via Alt-F4 after applying new resolution so that
it won't be able to revert the change.

Is there another way I can tell Plasma 5 to use a different
resolution?

Sorry for a newbie-type question, but Internet searches are just
bringing up how to use the tool, which isn't helpful.

Rong

Doesn't work. It is intercepted by Remina and asks me if I want to close
the active connection.

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[email protected] wrote:

I'm running a Debian/Trixie AMD64 workstation with Plasma 5 over X. I'm connection remotely to it from my Debian/Bookworm AMD64 laptop using Remina/VNC over ssh. The connection is unworkable so I want to reduce the remote workstation's resolution.

However, when I try using the Display Configuration Settings tool, the confirmation dialogue doesn't show on my laptop until it's timed out and auto-closes - discarding the changes.

Is there another way I can tell Plasma 5 to use a different resolution?

Sorry for a newbie-type question, but Internet searches are just bringing up how to use the tool, which isn't helpful.

You could try kscreen-doctor, I use it to change refresh rates but it can do resolution too.

Regards,
Geoff

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