I had similar problems with alt-tab via VNC myself. I found a single viewer(either TightVNC or RealVNC, cant remember which) that does what I want. You hit F8 and select full screen, and it captures the alt-tab and sends it to the remote WM.
Personally for VNC connections, I usually stick with twm, or if I really need some of the features of a modern wm, I use XFCE4. Mike Brian Lavender wrote: > At school (Sac State) we log into a CENTOS system running GNOME, or I > believe you can select your own Window Manager, and all seems to work > fine. I hate VNC though. I haven't found a way for Alt-tab to work > except with TightVNC, click the Alt key and then select Tab. Which still > doesn't really work. The Alt-tab always go to the local host. > > RDP seems to work a whole lot better. There isn't an RDP server for > GNU/Linux, is there? > > Isn't there a light weight X server out there for Winblows? > > brian > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:47:37AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote: >> Thanks Orson... good suggestions though I'm pretty much OK with >> VNC performance. Was mostly concerned about gumming up server >> performance with needless processes and memory consumption. >> >> Rod >> >> Orson Jones wrote: >>> Actually, the problem with vnc is a bit different than the problem of >>> minimal system resources. (ram/cpu) You might be better off going with >>> the standard gnome install, but selecting visual settings that are >>> easily compressed for vnc. Go to System > Preferences > Appearance. Mist >>> is a fairly lightweight (visually) theme. Set the background to a solid >>> color. Change the fonts to Monochrome. (If you can stand it anyway.) You >>> might also disable the display of icons on the desktop. >>> http://edivad.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/gnome-hide-desktop-icons/ >>> Set the number of workspaces to only one and removing the workspace >>> switcher will help also. >>> >>> Orson >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
