>>Suggestion: Put "Alertia" on the 7100; it can take care of at least one of >>the reasons VNC won't operate: open dialog boxes waiting for you to click >>"OK". > >That's strange. I've never had ChromiVNC come to a halt because of this... >The vncPatches have quite a number of patches which should intercept all >such situations (except for the drag manager case, which needs some extra >patches found in vncPatches68k). > >Can you be more specific about it? Any particular dialog boxes from any >particular apps?
For a while, I used the same Mac as a remote print server, driving a StyleWriter. The software for network sharing the printer evidently did not pass dialog boxes back to the invoking Mac; they just show up on the printer's host. This means that the person who invoked the print job wouldn't know there was a problem. So when a print job would fail, the Mac would freeze until the dialog was cleared locally. Also, I *think* that some of Retrospect's dialogs may have frozen it, but I'm not sure. Everything has been so well-behaved for so long, that I haven't thought much about it lately. It may very well be that I put Alertia on the Mac while I was still using the AT&T version of VNC -- I just can't remember. Whenever I find a solution to a problem, I tend to just leave it in place, so I didn't do any "regression testing" when I moved to ChromiVNC. Although I did have some drag problems for a while, they don't seem to be manifesting themselves right now (but, that's yet one more reason you might need a monitor and keyboard). >>BTW, I use ChromiVNC with VNCThing for a client. I have fewer problems >>than with the AT&T versions. > >The only real problem I have found with ChromiVNC (apart from that it seems >to crash my Duo2300 quite frequently when used with Think Pascal, and also >sometimes when used with an old version of Eudora) The 7100 runs Eudora Light 3.1 to allow Retrospect to send me little notes -- no problem at all. >is the Finder double- >click problem - it's usually better to triple-click a Finder icon. >(Search the list archives if you want more gory details on this...) That one is a bit annoying. Here's a trick that makes it a bit more tolerable: Triple-click an icon and immediately move the mouse away from the icon. If the remote cursor follows, the click didn't "take", and you know that a lot faster than if you just wait for the folder to open (or not). Isaac --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
