Oliver Jones wrote:
As an aside, TightVNC is much better than old vanilla vnc. You can do things like compress the tcp stream using zlib and use jpeg image compression. Quite nippy over ADSL.
The thing I like about the windows vnc viewer is that it does fullscreen and (this is important) allows you to easily swap back to your native desktop using a keypress (ctrl-esc). TightVNC has a fullscreen mode and it works under KDE3.1 but I couldn't figure out how to swap back to windowed mode once fullscreen mode was entered.(1) Anyway in X since you can run X apps remotely and most modern wm's allow multiple desktop then vnc is kind of redundant for X to X. g (1) whoops... the keypress is F8 ... just found out why I missed that, it's "man xtightvncviewer" not "man tightvnc" and on my Mandrake 9.1 man -k was broken at the time, something to do with the installer thinking I was in Korea. -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz