Saturday, July 25, 2015

How to fix Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 full screen issue


I recently upgraded Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2 to version 2.7. After I fixed the popup window issue (http://andyinmatrix.blogspot.ca/2015/07/how-to-fix-remote-desktop-connection.html), I encountered another even worse issue: the host’s screen doesn’t scale to fit the full size of the local client screen size, which the RDCMan version 2.2 is doing very well. I have to use scroll bars to get the “start” button. This is really annoyed.



A few steps to fix this problem:

Click menu “tool”-> “options”



Click tab “Client Area”. Make sure “Lock window size” is unchecked.



Right click the very top root level of the hosts tree (it is actually your .rdg file name), select “properties”



Click tab “Remote Desktop Settings”; uncheck "Inherit from parent"; check "Same as client area", click ok.



That’s all. Enjoy the full screen. And of course, don’t forget to save your .rdg file.

57 comments:

  1. Thanks for a very useful post. I'd to disconnect all server sessions and select the top-level node before making any changes. The first change (setting the custom pixels didn't seem to have any effect at all). The second one -- changing the properties for the group node -- is the doozy. It did the trick. Thank you.

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  2. Thanks! Was getting pretty annoyed at this.

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  3. this was driving me insane! THANK YOU !!!

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  4. Very helpful. Thanks

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  5. Really appreciate for sharing this solution.

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  6. Love how micro$oft always drops the ball. Thanks for this great article to make them less annoying.

    THANK YOU!

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  7. I love you ;). So frustrating. Such a simple fix.

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  8. That was really helpful.

    Thank you so much (Y)

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  9. Perfect, thanks! That has annoying me for a while. As above, I only needed to do the top level change.

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  10. Thank you very much! helpful!

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  11. Thank you very much for this..

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  12. Haven't been back to my site for a while and glad to have many comments :-)

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  13. You are a HERO!!

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  14. You are a HERO!!

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  15. Hello, I don't know if its because I have a 13" screen withe 3200x1800 screen but when I log into vpn I get the full screen but the icons are way too small for me to read. When I zoom in on the vpn client then I have to use scroll bars to get anywhere and that is way too cumbersome. Any ideas for how to get a vpn screen to look anywhere near like my hi def screen in terms of size of icons is much appreciated.
    Thanks

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    1. You may have to lock the windows size. On the tab "Client Area", check "Lock Window size" and select one of the sizes, like 1600*1200.

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  16. Great Man of the galaxy :)

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  17. You're the man....Thank you

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  18. HA HA it worked. KICK ASS. Thank you.

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  19. Thx very much... This helped me! :)

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  20. Thx very much... This helped me! :)

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  21. OMG you've scratched a terrible itch my OCD has had for so long. I'll spread the gospel.

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  22. Man, you saved my day, I've been failing to solve this for months now! You're a true saint!

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  23. Thank you for posting this.

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  24. I have literally spent weeks looking for the answer to this. Thank you for posting it...!

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  25. You wrote this article over a year from today but it was very accurate and most important working, awesome

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  26. Thank you!! Very helpful!

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  27. you've just saved my life!! hahaha..
    thanks bud!

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  28. bruh... thank you!! you helped me.

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  29. Great tips. Thanks so much for the sharing!!!

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  30. Superb helped me thank you.

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  31. This was perfect for solving the Remote Desktop Connection manager issue I had. Thank you so much!

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  32. I have RDMan on a Macbook Pro running Windows 10. I cannot resize Client. Please advise.

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  33. This fix worked for me, Windows 10 and and new download of RDCman 2.7, Thanks

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  34. Kudos for posting this. Very useful. Though this is an older thread, I want to add on another addition to the answer. In addition to enabling "Same As Client Area" option on Remote Desktop Settings, you should also enable "Scale docked desktop to fit window" and/or "Scale undocked desktop to fit window" depending on whether you use docked or undocked. Otherwise, I still had to scroll up/down and left/right to reach the corners of my screen.

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  35. Thanks Brother @@Living in Matrix" after reading tens of post your solution worked.
    Really easy, helpful and professional.

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  36. Thanks !. This helped me. Cheers

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  37. Thank you for this! Works like a charm :)

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  38. You just made my day. :)

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