Another alternative might be try out NoMachine NX. It handles all that for you.
www.nomachine.com Use the RPM version, it'll work just fine in zypper to install locally. Install all three RPMs it offers - the client, the node, and the server. Let me know off-list if you need additional assistance with it. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > openSUSE 12.3, 64 bit, KDE (via startkde& in .vnc/xstartup) > Ah, here's something, openSUSE is running TigerVNC Server 1.2.80; I've run > TightVNC server in the past. > vncserver -geometry 1585x790 -depth 16 -from 127.0.0.1 -localhost > Ports forwarded through OpenSSH on Windows side. (through Reflection for > UNIX 12.0 terminal emulation program) > I have been using Tight VNC Viewer, Windows, 2.7.7.0 (new install, just > downloaded). With the discovery that it is TigerVNC, I have installed and > verified that it has the same problem under TigerVNC Viewe as well. > > I have tried running X over SSH with compression in the past. It was like > move the cursor, wait about 30 seconds for it to finish moving, see if it > is where you hoped it would land, etc. Just not very responsive. I > haven't tried it lately but I am pretty sure it was a network bandwidth > issue. > > Note that this is not a problem running Firefox, LibreOffice, konsole, > etc. under vnc. The only program I have found so far that doesn't display > correctly is yast2 and it's sub-programs. > > Paul > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Chuck Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Paul, >> >> Fist what version of openSUSE are you are running? Second what you >> using to connect, you know you send vnc, but is it Tigh, Tiger, Ultra. >> Are you going from a Linux box to Linux box, or some other os? >> >> Why not use ssh and X forwarding. I alot last of pain to deal with than >> vnc. >> >> ssh -Y -C youruser@yourhost /sbin/YaST2 >> >> I have created alias to the boxes that manager. >> >> Are you using the remote access that is set up within YaST, or you >> using vncserver to set up you vnc session? >> >> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I have been setting up a new openSUSE box. Everything so far has been >> > working fine except when I tried to run Yast (SUSE graphical >> configuration >> > program) under VNC. >> > >> > It just has the background color displayed. I can point to things in >> the >> > window, the cursor changes (e.g. resize a pane cursor). I can blindly >> click >> > on things, and have yet more grey windows pop up. >> > >> > Running Yast on the console works fine. I'm running VNC with 16-bit >> color. >> > I've run several other applications, and nothing else has acted like >> this. >> > >> > Any thoughts on what could cause such weird window appearance just in >> Yast? >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Terror PUP a.k.a >> Chuck "PUP" Payne >> >> (678) 636-9678 >> ----------------------------------------- >> Discover it! 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