Open a Remote Desktop (RDP) session with a custom resolution.

mstsc /w:1500 /h:900 /v:www.example.com
Using a widescreen monitor, I often get annoyed that the RDP window is too high, or too narrow for what I want to display. In this example, I'm on a 1680 x 1050 display.

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By: merkmerc
2009-06-25 14:01:42
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I don't what platform this command is for (I'm guessing mstsc means MS terminal services client) but for linux there is the rdesktop command which works quite well. Using rdesktop you may specify just about any resolution: rdesktop -g 1500x900 remote.example.com alternate color depths are available with -a and fullscreen with -f. While in fullscreen Ctrl-Alt-Enter toggles you in and out of fullscreen mode.
bwoodacre · 877 weeks and 2 days ago
Yeah, it's on Windows. I assumed that the tags I entered to categorize the commend would be displayed with it, since the site's instructions stated "For instance, if this commands needs a certain shell or OS, use these as tags." Hopefully the tagging feature will be made more robust in the future.
merkmerc · 877 weeks and 2 days ago

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