successful use of beta 2 / 2.1

Jonathan Morton chromi "at" cyberspace.org
Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:14:09 +0000


>One thing that has been annoying me, though, is this. VNC is so much
>like the real thing that occasionally I slip in to auto-pilot and fire
>off a hasty Command-Q or Command-W when I am using the viewer program,
>intending to close/quit an app./window on the server through VNC.
>Naturally, the app/window on the server remains open and blissfully
>ignorant; the viewer program gets it in the neck.

Yes, I noticed this as well - it's largely a User Interface issue i think.
I understnd there are already known problems with trying to send
Command-key equivalents to Macs, whether from another Mac or from another
platform entirely.  Perhaps an "are you sure" message would help?  (i'll
think about implementing it!).


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