Discussion: Ctrl+Alt+Del from remote and hiding VNC system-tray icon

[William Hooper]

Seak, Teng-Fong said:
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> 	So it seems that RealVNC > Run VNC Server is just a sort of "superficial"
> server", as mentioned in the FAQ Q31.

No, it is in "App Mode".  Notice it says Run VNC *Server* not *service*.

> Maybe in next version, you could
> add some code to start the real service in NT systems when people run
> "Run VNC Server".

It is already in the 4 beta, part of the menu seperation of "App" and
"Service" modes.

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> 	From the above experience, by chance I discovered that manually start VNC
> service won't show the system-tray icon (well, forgive my ignorance if
> you know this already :) ).  With some Windows Script, I'm pretty sure
> it's possible to do some trick to hide this icon.  Actually, since this
> icon appears only when someone's logged on, we can _restart_ the VNC
> Server service as soon as he logs on.  At least, I've tried this manually
> and it works!

I thought this was fixed in later versions.  The behavior you are seeing
is the fact that the "Service-helper" app isn't running.  This also has
implications for some user-level things (wallpaper comes to mind).  I know
v4 beta correctly runs the service-helper no matter how you start the VNC
service.

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William Hooper