I am using Windows7 remote desktop connection. The 'Display' settings for RDC are set to [1920x1080]. When remote desktoping into my Ubuntu Server 12.04, I get a 1920x1080 window. However, the actual view of the Ubuntu terminal is about 600x400.
Since an image says 1k words, here you can see two of them:
Remote Desktop Connection settings:
Tiny Resolution:
You are accessing a terminal, which is 80x25 characters by default. This will not change. Different RDP software can resize fonts, but still will be 80x25 chars. It is not clear if you ar eusing VNC protocol to access the server, but most probably yes.
I will recommend to use putty (http://www.putty.org/) for Windows instead via ssh protocol, which allows you to display whatever size, font, fontsize, etc, of your server text screen. You will need to have port 22 open for that purpose and sshfs installed (usually is installed by default, but we dont know anything about your server).
if it is a server I would not recommend to install a windows manager on the server, it is pretty useless. If you want to manage a server in some clickable windows mode, it is good to install webmin (web-admin)
to install sshfs (if it is not present) enter following in command line of your server.
sudo apt-get install sshfs
To install webmin follow this (How to install webmin?) or this guide: (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-webmin-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise-server.html)
