Remmina: why not display full screen?

Question

I installed Remmina to access remote virtual PC on Windows.

Remmina - 1.3.3 (git n/a)

RDP RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: No
RDPF RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: No
RDPS RDP Plugin: 1.3.3 (git n/a), Compiled with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (2693389a+debian), Running with FreeRDP lib: 2.0.0-dev5 (rev 2693389a+debian), H264: No
SFTP 1.3.3     
SSH  1.3.3     
VNC 1.3.3     
VNCI 1.3.3     
glibsecret 1.3.3     

Build configuration: HAVE_ARPA_INET_H=1 HAVE_ERRNO_H=1 HAVE_FCNTL_H=1 HAVE_NETDB_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_IN_H=1 HAVE_NETINET_TCP_H=1 HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H=1 HAVE_SYS_UN_H=1 HAVE_TERMIOS_H=1 HAVE_UNISTD_H=1 WITH_APPINDICATOR=ON WITH_AVAHI=ON WITH_FREERDP=ON WITH_GCRYPT=ON WITH_GETTEXT=ON WITH_IPP=OFF WITH_LIBRARY_VERSIONING=ON WITH_LIBSECRET=ON WITH_LIBSSH=ON WITH_LIBVNCSERVER=ON WITH_MANPAGES=ON WITH_SPICE=ON WITH_SSE2=ON WITH_TELEPATHY=ON WITH_TRANSLATIONS=ON WITH_VTE=ON
Build type:          None
CFLAGS:              -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/remmina-sBKSjU/remmina-1.3.3+dfsg=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Wall -g
Compiler:            GNU, 

8.3.0
Target architecture: x64

When I connecting to remote PC, it shows only a part of screen:

Please, tell me, how to fix it & to show full screen.

OS: Ubuntu 19.04.

Solution 1

Unfortunately I haven't found any decent rdp for linux yet to reach the level of native windows or Microsoft's rdp for mac. Remmina does not show the remote desktop full size (or I couldn't make it to work).

To my surprise a cli tool called rdesktop works good enough.

rdesktop <host-ip>

Of course you can specify username and password and other options before making the connection and create an alias so you don't have to type each time.

For example:

alias rdp='rdesktop -u Administrator -p mypass 10.10.1.10'

If you want to have a shared folder to transfer files between the 2 machines:

alias rdp='rdesktop -u Administrator -p mypass 10.10.1.10 -r disk:myshare=/home/user'

Solution 2

In the sidebar of the Remmina screen, there is an option to show the full screen:

Solution 3

What i did was, create the connection at the "New connection Profile" button. Then you have to set your connection settings (server,domain, user, password....) and you can set your display settings.

Comments

[DimiDak]

It goes full screen but inside that does not show up full size.

[sbeskur]

works brilliantly on Ubuntu