Problems viewing OS X desktop from Linux

[Phil Endecott]

James Weatherall wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Unfortunately the Apple Remote Desktop product isn't fully VNC compatible.  
> There are some ports of the standard VNC system to Mac OS X, I believe, or 
> you might try the VNC Enterprise Edition Server for Mac OS X.

Thanks Wez (& also Peter for your earlier message).  I was hoping that 
someone had already worked out a nice feature-matrix of which servers 
(& viewers) did what.

A couple more "features" of the OS X built-in server that I've noticed 
this evening:

- It will let you saw off the branch you're sitting on by disabling the 
VNC server over VNC.  I did this just to see what would happen, 
wondering if Apple are any better at this sort of thing than anyone 
else, and they aren't.

- Apps that (I presume) need hardware video or 3D don't seem to work at 
all.  In a few cases you get an error message, but normally not.


Cheers,  Phil.