There may be alternatives to JollysFastVNC that support full screen and stretching.įull screen Screen Sharing in Lion (suggested by bmike) is very tidy, if you can accept the linen margin. Hopefully visible in the following screenshot, the horizontal stretch of a 1024 x 768 (4:3) display to fill my 1920 x 1200 (16:10) MacBookPro5,2: Without Correct Aspect Ratio and with Fullscreen, the display of a remote computer with a different ratio will be stretched to fill the display of the local computer. Neither Remote Desktop 3.5 (460.87) nor Screen Sharing 1.3 (460044000000000) in Mac OS X 10.7.1 supports scaling to accommodate the different ratios. Is there any way to set my iMac to use these resolutions when I am connected via Screen Sharing? I know the root cause is a fundamental mismatch in aspect ratios, but surely the iMac can support a 16:9 external display, so why not for a virtual display?Īccording to MacTracker, your iMac9,1 supports two aspect ratios, both of which differ from the (approximate) 16:9 that is native to your MacBook Air:ġ6:10 (1920 x 1200, 1600 x 1000, 1344 x 840, 1280 x 800, 1024 x 640, 800 x 500)Ĥ:3 (1600 x 1200, 1344 x 1008, 1280 x 960, 1024 x 768, 960 x 600, 800 x 600, 640 x 480). I can get native vertical with horizontal borders at 1024x768, or I can get close to full screen after scaling with slim borders by using 1680x1050, but neither of these are ideal. ![]() Now were going to resize the canvas to the size you need. I want to avoid scaling wherever possible, and use one of the 16:9 ratios that my Air supports to get full screen non scaled viewing. You can do the following: Open your image and choose 'Select All' (Cmd-A) from the 'Edit' menu Choose 'Copy' (Cmd-C) from the 'Edit' menu Choose 'New from Clipboard' (Cmd-N) from the 'File' menu At this point you have a full-sized copy of your image in a new window. Oddly these are "extra" resolutions, but none of the available choices match the 16:9 aspect ratio of the Air, or equate to any of the supported 16:10 ratio resolutions of the Air, I only get options for the 4:3 aspect ratio.ġ366x768 (native), 1344x7x720 pixels at 16:9 aspect ratioġ024x768 and 800圆00 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio If I select to use the virtual display instead my choice of available screen resolutions changes to the following: If I screen share using the normal physical display, I get the following choice of screen resolutions: When I am in though, I can change the resolution, and have elected to put the display preferences menu bar item in to allow me to change quickly. The iMac resolution native resolution is 1900x1200 (16:10), so when scaled down to Airs 1366x768 (16:9) it looks bad and doesn't fill the screen (even after using "full screen"). When this happens the original iMac screen resolution is used and scaled down to fit into the lower resolution on the Macbook Air. I often screen share using the Macbook Air as the client, and presenting the screen from my iMac onto it. ![]() MacBook Air (Early 2011, first of the new shape 11.6") ![]() IMac (early 2009, iMac9,1 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120)
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