On Sunday 11 Feb 2007, pelibali wrote: > Hi, > > My mom's stock/boxed SUSE 8.2 is on dial-up. Sometimes I teach her to > do tasks via vnc, being located in another country. I'm new to vnc, > but the desktop sharing we do from her KDE session is simple and the > thing works quite well... > > The only thing I would change is to avoid seeing her desktop image > when connecting, which would surely accelerate the speed of the > connection a lot. I use SUSE 9.1 with KDE 3.3.x, where there was an > option to hide desktop background when connecting, but on her earlier > KDE's Control Center there was no option like this and > disableBackground=true > in her respective config file was also without any effect:( > > Any idea/work-around please to achieve the needed effect or acce- > lerate on another way the vnc connection's speed?! > > The second related question is that on her computer I saw TCP 5800 > listening. I didn't see it before she activated the desktop sharing > and would be interested, how it could get opened. I didn't activate > vnc through xinetd and chkconfig reports it (as supposed) to be > deactivated. The only thing is that via KDE's Control Panel we acti- > vated the above desktop sharing and immediately moved it to a higher > port number. TCP 5800 I just saw accidentally and is anyway firewal- > led; the particular port needed by me has been opened under the > SuSEfirewall2. > > Thank you for any thoughts, comments. > > Pelibali
I've not used VNC but I first tried NX If you are both on Linux, have a look at www.nomachine.com. Their free NX Client/server is excellent. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
