Vncviewer For Macintosh

VNC Viewer for Macintosh Beta 2 ­7/6/99 Note. This is a beta release. As with all VNC software, you use at your own risk! Requirements: To use the Macintosh VNCviewer, you will need: MacOS 7.1 or greater, the Threads Manager, and Open Transport (1.1.1 or later) or MacTCP, though OT will work much better. Introduction: Use of the Mac viewer should be straightforward if you are familiar withthe concepts behind VNC, and have a suitable VNC server running on another machine. On starting the program, you are presented with a dialog box requesting the server name and display number. Type, eg. 'snoopy:0', or select a recent connection from the pull­down list. You can type a dotted IP address in place of the name, eg: '192.168.1.3:0'. Note the display number is NOT normally the TCP/IP port number. You can also pop up a list of options, the important ones are: Share desktop When you make a connection to a VNC server, all other existing connections are normally closed. This option requests that they be left open, allowing you to share the desktop with someone already using it. Allow only 8­bit encoding This forces the viewer to request simple 8­bit true­colour (BGR233) from the server regardless of local or remote pixel depth, which can reduce network traffic. Useful over modems. View only In View­only mode, no mouse or keyboard events will be sent back to the server. This is useful for teaching sessions or other situations where you want to observe but don't want to interfere. Scale desktop to window This scales the remote display to fit the local window. This is a bit rough at present, but may be useful in certain circumstances. If the connection is successful, you will be asked for your password, after which the remote desktop should appear. The File.. menu will allow you to start new sessions. The Connections menu lists open connections, along with icons representing their current status. See the 'Symbol Reference' option on the Apple menu for a description of these icons. Mouse Buttons (new for Beta 2) As the Mac mouse (usually) only has one button, some mechanism is needed to transmit left and middle combinations. Pressing command + n will toggle the use of button n. The current status of the button toggles is shown on the title bar of each connection. Initially the only toggle set is button 1. This means when the mouse is clicked a button 1 click event is sent. If you wanted to send a button 2 click you would turn off button 1 (via command + 1) then turn on button 2 (via command + 2) then click the mouse. To return to normal (button 1) use you'd need to untoggle button 2 (command + 2) and retoggle button 1. In this way all 8 combinations of 3 button superpositions can be sent. Admittedly this is a bit long winded if you only want to send a button 3 click (as you would for pasting in Unix) so command + 4 and command + 5 are set …