Window scrolling in RDP

[HCHTech]

If I'm connected to a remote system with RDP and have the session in a window that is not maximized, should I expect to be able to scroll that window with the mouse wheel? It's maddening to have to keep clicking and dragging the scrollbar to make the start button or taskbar visible. I thought surely this would be a setting, but I've never found it.

 

[fencepost]

Never seen that, and my gut is "no, you won't be able to scroll the RDP window" because there's no way for RDP to know whether you want the scrolling to go to the remote session (that has focus) or the window (within which that remote session has focus).

 

[HCHTech]

I have a customer that I maintain a full-time VPN connection with, so I always use RDP for accessing their workstations. Often, when updating their LOB app, I'll open a session with 8 workstations at once and just grind through the several steps. Anyway, even with dual monitors, that's 4 sessions per monitor if I set it up so I can see all of them at once. That means I have to constantly scroll the windows to expose the start button or taskbar. Not impossible, of course, just a little tedious.

 

[fencepost]

I never really got into using it, but you might want to look at Royal TS - designed for handling multiple TS sessions at once.

You could also take the approach a buddy of mine uses: 4K 40" TVs as monitors.

 

[Mainstay]

What about using Windows Desktop Connection Manager and tweak the display settings to match your desired window size?

 

[TAPtech]

I know this doesn't answer your question at all, but perhaps will provoke some thought- I use screen connect and you can simply scale the window size and it'll scale the view to match.

 

[fencepost]

What about using Windows Desktop Connection Manager and tweak the display settings to match your desired window size?

It may be necessary to actually search for that phrase, just following the link took me to a 404, but searching gave me a list that included the download for version 2.7 - and the download page is the same as that link.

Not sure quite what MS was doing there on the server side.

 

[Mainstay]

following the link took me to a 404

Weird - I just tried it in a different browser and it worked just fine.

But yes, that is the correct version.

 

[jack-ant]

As far as I can remember from when I used to connect using RDC, let's say you have a full HD display, you can set the RDC options to connect with say a 1024x768 resolution, and the window will be small in comparison to the real estate on your screen, and there'll be no scrollbars. This is possible on the default remote desktop program (mstsc) on windows in Options > Display.

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