diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
index 91eea6ea..537fe22e 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Desktop/DesktopView.tsx
@@ -140,14 +140,18 @@ export const DesktopView = ({ className, style }: DesktopViewProps) => {
         credentials: { password },
       });
 
-      // resizeSession WITHOUT scaleViewport. They are alternatives, not complements: resizeSession asks
-      // the server to become the container's size, scaleViewport scales whatever the server sends to fit.
-      // Xvnc implements RandR SetDesktopSize, so the session really does become the container size and
-      // there is nothing left to scale. With both enabled any gap between the size requested and the size
-      // granted leaves a fractional scale that pointer coordinates are mapped through — which is how the
-      // cursor ended up offset from where you clicked. One strategy, 1:1 pixels, no coordinate maths.
+      // BOTH. They are not alternatives — scaling is the fallback that covers the gap between resize
+      // events, and more importantly it is what keeps the coordinate maths self-consistent.
+      //
+      // noVNC maps a click as (clientX - canvasRect.left) / display._scale. Only scaleViewport's
+      // autoscale() sets the canvas's displayed size and _scale TOGETHER, so the two cannot disagree.
+      // Turning it off pins _scale at 1 while the canvas keeps being displayed at some other size, and
+      // nothing reconciles them: measured here, pointing a quarter of the way across the desktop landed
+      // at 51%, and pointing at the middle saturated at the right-hand edge. A clean factor of two.
+      // Clicks near the right and bottom edges still appeared to work, because doubling an already-large
+      // coordinate clamps back onto the edge it was aimed at.
       rfb.resizeSession = true;
-      rfb.scaleViewport = false;
+      rfb.scaleViewport = true;
       rfb.focusOnClick = true;
       // noVNC hides the browser's own cursor over the canvas and draws the REMOTE cursor in its place.
       // Until the server sends a cursor shape its image is RFB.cursors.none — so nothing is drawn, the