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This step is necessary to allow this resolution to show up in the menu chooser in later steps. You'll see the menu bar getting wider for a moment, but not the VNC windows. Press Return a couple of times to accept the resolution anyway. Go to System Preferences, Displays, and choose the resolution you want. The Display Menu application doesn't work on Lion. Here's an alternative, based on CDD's answer that will work for Lion. Some alternatives that others have presented below, in case this answer does not work for your system:

MacWorld Hints, which held the elusive answer!.

Alternative to this answer on SuperUser, doesn't accomplish what I wanted, but good to have for reference material.

Some things that helped me find this answer:

However, its the only way I have found that satisfies my OCD with proper screen real estate consumption. I have yet to log out of my current session on my client machine, so this may only be a temporary fix.

2nd Note - if your dock is screwed up, simply send killall dock.

It retains the logged in session, which retains the screen resolution you set with Display Menu in earlier steps. This command terminates the Screen Sharing session, which at its core is what Apple Remote Desktop uses. NOTE - if using Apple Remote Desktop's Send Unix Command, instead of using sudo, click the radio button to 'Run as User', and just enter root. Instead, use the following command over Apple Remote Desktop or via SSH: That forces the screen resolution to revert (in my case, back to 1280x1020), and you'll be back where you started. The reason the last line does not work is because it actually terminates your login session. Sudo ps auxwww | grep loginwindow | grep -v grep | awk '' | Many recommend something similar to the following Terminal commands.

Your screen will go black and you will be 'locked out', despite the resolution properly switching.

SSH MAC MINI INSTALL

Install the app, and for my use cases, 1680x1050 was the proper resolution.Download Display Menu (Free on Mac App Store).I found the following to work perfectly, assuming that you are using Apple Remote Desktop:

SSH MAC MINI HOW TO

Luckily I know how to navigate Activity Monitor with the Keyboard :-). The previous answer's AirDisplay drivers actually messed up my remote client, and left me with 16 virtual displays, all with the same information, where I couldn't click anything. I'd like to offer an improved answer, that the author may consider for the question.