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Display resolution via VNC with multiple users

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citivolus

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Sep 19, 2008
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I’ve got a 2020 M1 Mac mini which both my wife and I share. It is connected to a 5K monitor and we each have our own login id’s. She uses the Mac exclusively while I connect to it via VNC. When she is logged into the Mac directly, macOS allows her id to have all of the video resolutions available to her. When I connect via VNC, the resolution of my desktop is stuck at the last resolution I was using when I was logged in directly (rather than VNC). So if I go to the Mac and log in directly, I can change my desktop resolution to any available resolution. But if she is logged in when I connect via VNC, I cannot change the resolution for my desktop.

Is there any way to modify a file in macOS or some other way of tweaking this so I can change the resolution of my desktop when I connect via VNC while she is logged into the Mac directly at the same time?
 
It’s not clear from your post whether you were even able to change resolution while using VNC client with wife logged out.
 
Sorry let me clarify. Whoever is logged in directly at the Mac gets all resolutions available to them. If I am logged in directly at the Mac, and my wife connects to the Mac via VNC from her MacBook, her desktop resolution is stuck at whatever it was when she last logged in directly to the Mac.
 
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