Mac VNCViewer

[Jonathan Morton]

>Dear VNC-list:
>
>I recently started using Mac PPC VNC Viewer (3.3.3b2) to connect to out
>Linux server.
>
>It works great as long as I am in the VNC Viewer.  But when I am using
>other applications, the VNC Viewer seems to be responding in the backgroud
>to the movement of my mouse.  The window automatically scrolls up/down or
>left/right following my mouse movement.  Furthermore, it responds, too,
>when I click the mouse even when I am in Netscape, Word, or someother
>application.  So when I come back to the VNC Viewer window, I can see many
>things happened without me noticing.  Terminal windows were moved, closed,
>or even opened.  Sometimes Netscape (in Linux) was started...  It's
>annoying.
>
>Another problem I am having with the Mac VNC Viewer is that when I try to
>quit, it often hangs.  I get the "-1 error" message.  I increase the
>memory allocation to 16000kb.  But it still happens.
>
>I am using MacOS 9.0.4 on G4.  Is there anything I can do for these
>problems?  Is anybody having the same problem?
>

The answer to most of the VNC Viewer b3 problems is simply to try the 
other one - look in the Contributions page for "Purple Shark".  It's 
not perfect but it does work, and the author is planning to release 
an upgrade "in the next couple of months".
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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
mail:     chromi "at" cyberspace.org  (not for attachments)
uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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