Improvement when switching windows

William Hooper whooper@freeshell.org
Mon Oct 21 00:43:00 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Peters" <japeters@pacbell.net>
To: <vnc-list@realvnc.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 6:52 PM
Subject: Improvement when switching windows


> To speed up the results when the application machine is jumping around
various
> windows, lets have a way to tell VNC not to bother sending the screens
that
> are under the current screen, or at lease send them later.
>
> The best way I can think of is to use Ctrl+C to stop sending and just
refresh
> the current screen that is in the foreground.
>
> Japetes@pacbell.net


Isn't that what "Poll Foreground Window" is for in WinVNC is for?  Unix on
the other hand doesn't have this type of update handling that I know of.

Using Ctrl+C would cause problems for a number of things (break in Unix,
break in DOS, Copy in Windows.....).
--
William Hooper

All computers wait at the same speed