Re: PLANAR vs CHUNKY

2001-03-09 Thread John Thorp
Mac: I set the driver to 256 via the display icon in the control panel. Everything works fine now. Thanks! John - Original Message - From: "Mac Reiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 10:10 AM Subject: Re: PLANAR vs CHUNKY > >"vncDesktop: Curre

Re: Java applet width=0 height=32

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
This error occurs when the server is unable to hook the display, typically because the machine is locked and you are running the server in application mode. Cheers, James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communications Engineering

Re: Uninstalling VNC via Batch Script?

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
You *must* be an administrator to perform a winvnc -remove, or to remove the software. Note that winvnc -remove just removes the service mode entries in the registry, not the settings, executables, etc. Cheers, James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlighten

RE: x0rfbserver / xrc problem

2001-03-09 Thread Brad Doster
Well, if anyone cares... I got NO respone in the TridiaVNC list either, but I did get an email response from the author of x0rfbserver. Bottom line is that it's a known problem and the author will let me know when it's fixed. (Thank you, Jens!) Hopefully some other soul will find this message

RE: GDI DLL Wrapper

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Mac Reiter wrote: > Has anyone looked into SetDDIHook? It is part of the Active Accessibility > system, and allows you to route ALL GDI->device driver calls through a > 16-bit DLL of your choice. The 16 bit part annoys me, but it would give > you all the information you coul

Re: how do I specify window mgr with linux server

2001-03-09 Thread David Rock
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:46:25PM -0800, Mark Humphrey wrote: > > fix this? Why does ROOT's desktop load and not my personal one. Root's desktop is showing because that's who started the vncserver. Try running vncserver as a userid and then connect to that session instead. Make sure you pay att

Re: newby question redhat 6.2

2001-03-09 Thread David Rock
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:06:29PM -0600, rhenderson wrote: > startx starts my gnome when I am at the console. how do I get the same when > connecting using a browser. > Add a line in your ~/.vnc/xstartup file: #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey # xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10

RE: GDI DLL Wrapper

2001-03-09 Thread Mac Reiter
Has anyone looked into SetDDIHook? It is part of the Active Accessibility system, and allows you to route ALL GDI->device driver calls through a 16-bit DLL of your choice. The 16 bit part annoys me, but it would give you all the information you could hope to need, and you could simply pass on an

Re: how do I specify window mgr with linux server

2001-03-09 Thread Mark Humphrey
You need to put a command into ~/.vnc/xstartup to start your window manager. Since you're not actually running X, you have to tell Xvnc what to do when it starts. X has a default file that it executes when starting (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc on my system), but Xvnc does not. Then again,

Re: Maximum Windows

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Morong, Gerry wrote: > When using Solaris 2.6 as a VNC server, each user VNC session is limited to > a little over 50 windows (under CDE). If you use the Exceed product on a > Microsoft box with a Solaris 2.6 X host, you are limited to 90 windows. Is it simply the case that

Re: PLANAR vs CHUNKY

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Mac, > > > History and technology lessons follow for those of you who are > > interested... > > Thanks for the interesting explanation. > > > For those of you who are interested, this is a problem because WinVNC > > must pull the image of the scre

RE: GDI DLL Wrapper

2001-03-09 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Sharma, Shashi wrote: > So, if I just send the drawing request(like drawline, BitBlt etc) with the > bounding rectangle then WinVNC would be able to do the rest. > I am intersted to know what would be the performance gains. Considerable. WinVNC could completely avoid checki

how do I specify window mgr with linux server

2001-03-09 Thread Lisa Beasley
I have some experience with a Linux server at home, but very little with Xwindows. I have Redhat 6.1 with Gnome and KDE window mgrs installed. I start vncserver on the Linux box then try to connect using a windows 98 machine. Viewer connects fine and shows "Root's desktop", sometimes there is a

Maximum Windows

2001-03-09 Thread Morong, Gerry
When using Solaris 2.6 as a VNC server, each user VNC session is limited to a little over 50 windows (under CDE). If you use the Exceed product on a Microsoft box with a Solaris 2.6 X host, you are limited to 90 windows. Anyone aware of what the addition window overhead is with VNC vs. Exceed? Su

Re: PLANAR vs CHUNKY

2001-03-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mac, > History and technology lessons follow for those of you who are > interested... Thanks for the interesting explanation. > For those of you who are interested, this is a problem because WinVNC > must pull the image of the screen from the system. It does this with > GetDIBits (probably

newby question redhat 6.2

2001-03-09 Thread rhenderson
startx starts my gnome when I am at the console. how do I get the same when connecting using a browser. Thanks, Rick Henderson Windham School District (936) 291-5356 - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe v

RE: Solaris 2.7 CDE issues

2001-03-09 Thread Waltner, Steve
Here is my ~/.vnc/xstartup file that starts, and more importantly kills CDE inside VNC when the user hits the CDE exit button. I really wish Xvnc would sense when the xstartup file exited and cleanly exit like the normal X server does when the users .xinitrc file exits so that I wouldn't n

Re: User Prompt

2001-03-09 Thread David Rock
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:49:20PM -0500, Debby Creech wrote: > I know this is probably an old question...but I am new to the list. > > Is there a modified version of winvnc.exe that allows for a prompt to be > displayed to the user of the machine you are connecting to so that they > actually know

Solaris 2.7 CDE issues

2001-03-09 Thread tkaczma
I've come accross several issues with Xvnc with CDE. One is that after issuing the exit action on the CDE toolbar no windows close. If I press exit again I receive a window with the following: TT_ERR_NO_MATH There is no running program to handle this message, nor is there a static ptype to star

Re: User Prompt

2001-03-09 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I know this is probably an old question...but I am new to the list. > >Is there a modified version of winvnc.exe that allows for a prompt to be >displayed to the user of the machine you are connecting to so that they >actually know someone is trying to access their machine? Yes, in fact it's in

Re: Exporting sound with VNC

2001-03-09 Thread tkaczma
As far as sound transmission, you may want to take a look at the work done by NCD (a Xterm manufacturer). At least one of the documents there also mentions work done by other vendors. Here are some links: ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub/ncd/technology/presentations/multimedia/ and ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub

User Prompt

2001-03-09 Thread Debby Creech
I know this is probably an old question...but I am new to the list. Is there a modified version of winvnc.exe that allows for a prompt to be displayed to the user of the machine you are connecting to so that they actually know someone is trying to access their machine? +

Re: iXnvc and xdm

2001-03-09 Thread Jeff Vincent
You shouldn't have to do anything with the XServer configuration. You must edit /etc/services and add something like: vnc 5950/tcp This tells inetd which port to listen on and the name of the service. Once a request comes in on that port, inetd creates a new connection of the type specifie

RE: logoff breaks connection

2001-03-09 Thread Steve Palocz
Sound like your display is changing resolution or depth. Check that the user you are loggin in as is the same as default settings. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Helpdesk Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Solaris 2.7 and CDE

2001-03-09 Thread Richard Spaven
Due to there being no video card on the Solaris 2.7 server I have never started CDE. I actually do not know if CDE is installed or what Package to check for. Is there a vncserver script about that will achieve CDE over VNC. I can get an X session but admin tool has no windowing facilities. Be

Re: PLANAR vs CHUNKY

2001-03-09 Thread Mac Reiter
>"vncDesktop: Current display is PLANAR, not CHUNKY! WinVNC cannot be used with >this graphics device driver." I received this error while trying to set up WinVNC on an embedded system. Fortunately for me, I knew what the terms planar and chunky meant from my own graphics programming experience.

RE: logoff breaks connection

2001-03-09 Thread Daniel van der Zee
I had this too while making some changes to VNC for our local situation (we used tightvnc as a base). Every time you log in, log off and lock workstation a desktop switch occurs. For some unknown reason (to me) a winvnc call to the win32 api (OpenInputDesktop) fails under some circumstances. I fo

Re: VNCVIEWER Failure to connect

2001-03-09 Thread Gary Lee Radcliff
I have the same problem but with an older laptop. I've been told to update the graphics driver. I'm just having trouble locating an updated driver for an old Midwest Micro Laptop, They don't seen to have one on their site. At 11:48 PM 3/8/01 -0500, John Thorp, you typed: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

logoff breaks connection

2001-03-09 Thread Helpdesk
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to prepare for installation fo WinVNC for our company and I'm busy testing. I run into the following problem: I got WinVNC installed as a server, but everytime I am connected and logg off (remote) the connection is broken. Then I have to reconnect to login again onto th