Like many others, I've been hit by the "killed wallpaper bug" which while its a good idea seems like there is a big bug in the code for restoring the wallpaper.
I am administering a farm of 300+ servers, mostly NT4. I use VNC for some basic remote control. I like VNC, its a pretty good program. I'm currently using 3.3.3R9. There is a good program out there called bginfo, short for big info, you can find it at www.sysinternals.com Basically bginfo grabs some system information and creates a .bmp file and then changes the current wallpaper to a new very informative wallpaper. This is very useful when connecting to one of many machines, its easy to tell exactly which machine I'm on and since I'm on a high speed lan and wan, performance isn't that big of an issue. So I WANT to KEEP my wallpaper!! At first, I was annoyed that on connect, VNC killed the wallpaper. I looked through the docs and found the registry setting for remove wallpaper and changed it to 0, hoping to disable this feature. This worked for the connect problem, but then for no good reason, when disconnecting, VNC replaces my current wallpaper with whatever wallpaper is configured in the .DEFAULT user profile. So I would think that if you set the remove wallpaper setting to 0, VNC should be smart enough to leave my wallpaper alone and not RESET it. The fact that VNC always insists on resetting the wallpaper even when I told it not kill the wallpaper is very annoying and would seem to be an easy thing to check for. Basicaly, only execute the "reset" or restore routine if the Remove wallpaper option is set to 1. Workaround: In the meantime, I've worked around the problem by configuring bginfo to also change the wallpaper for the .DEFAULT profile so when VNC disconnects at least the correct bitmap is restored. For those who use bginfo, make sure the "Display at logon" setting is saved in your configuration file. This is a workaround that only works when you have a system configured as a server and don't expect any users to login to it other than yourself. When working with a different application or just trying to keep your specific wallpaper, you would need to manually modify the registry to make the .DEFAULT wallpaper the same as the user wallpaper. This only works for one user or one type of display. Most likely, this would be useful for machines that are configured for autolgon. If you someone fixes this bug for the next release, I would be very grateful. - Nate __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
