![]() First one has been Ableton’s Live virtual studio. This is the third application misbehaving with DPI scaling for me. Under Windows 8, it seems to get some form of virtual resolution sensitive to the scaling! Let’s do the math real quick. It gets the display resolution and can make use of all pixels. Under Windows 7, this functionality doesn’t affect NX client at all. Magnification is done without lowering screen resolution, by just applying a scaling before rendering the graphical elements, as opposed to scale bitmaps after the fact as the Windows built-in and third-party zooming applications do. This doesn’t completely remove the need for application-specific tweaking, but this at least helps greatly. I use to bump up the scaling to 150% which makes fonts large enough for most cases and also enlarges mouse pointer. It can be adjusted by right-clicking on the Desktop, accessing Personnalize and clicking on Display. There is a very neat way to get this under Windows since 7: the DPI scaling. Nobody seems to be having this issue, and there is a very good reason why.īecause I am visually impaired, I need larger fonts and mouse pointer. However, running NX client on this machine causes a major issue: display resolution goes down to 1114×634! I tried searching for a solution or at least a workaround to no avail. Because it is lightweight, I like to use it when working from home. However, I got a secondary ultrabook running Windows 8.1. I can bump up the resolution closer to native by switching my NX client to full screen. The desktop showed up in a nice 1674×954 resolution, which is near the native 1680×1050 I have with the 22″ LCD out there. When I was connecting to NX server using NX Client 3 or 4 using my main corporate laptop running Windows 7, I got no display problem. I got issues with the screen resolution on Windows 8, erratic keyboard responses and ended up switching to VNC after I couldn’t find any solution under Windows 8. However, I can control on which NX client I run. The virtual machine at my work place is running NX Server 3.4.0-12, probably the free edition. At the end, I gave up on NX and fell back to VNC, but this exploration is nevertheless interesting. I recently tried using NoMachine‘s NX Client to connect to a virtual machine at work running NX Server, and got an incredible number of problems.
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