How to hide vnc icon
David Rogoff
david "at" therogoffs.com
Tue Nov 22 05:00:01 2005
Jerry Westrick wrote:
> On Monday 21 November 2005 20:42, Marcelo Oliveira wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like if is possible to hide vnc server icon on taskbar???
> >
> > I need this because anibody are shutdowning vnc server!!
>
>
> Marcelo:
>
> This has been discussed many times on this, and other lists. The answer is
> not only no, but NO. The people who wrote/write the software fear it's
> misuse (if that was allowed), more than any benefit they feel you can get
> from such an option.
>
> You have 3 solutions:
>
> If your need is only to stop anybody from stopping the service, then you can
> achieve that while leaving the icon in the taskbar.
>
> If you still require to have the Icon removed, then you need to use on the
> other variants of vnc, which have such an option...
>
>
Such as UltraVNC (http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net), which has an option
to disable the tray icon.
David
p.s. - why don't messages on this list have some kind of identifier in
the subject line (e.g. [VNC-LIST]) like every other list I'm on. It
would make it much easier to see the list messages.