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VNCviewer for Windows
You can run it from the command line or a shortcut and it will prompt you for a
display:
vncviewer
You can specify a display:
vncviewer snoopy:2
And you can run it with -h to get a list of other options. These can all take -
or / as the switch character. Most of them can also be set from the
'Options...' dialog box which is available from the initial connection prompt before
connecting, and some from the system menu by clicking the VNC logo in the top-left corner
of the window after connection.
- -shared
- When you make a connection to a VNC server, all other existing connections are normally
closed. This option requests that they be left open, allowing you to share the
desktop with someone already using it.
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- -8bit
- The viewer will normally accept whatever pixel format the server offers and do the
translation locally. This forces it to request 8-bit true-colour (BGR233) from the
server, which will reduce network traffic. Useful over modems.
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- -swapmouse
- Many X sessions expect a 3-button mouse. Many PCs have a 2-button mouse. Normally
the PC buttons left-middle-right are mapped on to X buttons 1,2,3. This switch
causes them to be mapped onto buttons 1,3,2, which may be more useful for two-button users
who only have left-right, because they will then get buttons 1 & 2 instead of 1 &
3.
- -belldeiconify
- VNC allows for the transmission of a 'bell' character, causing a beep at the viewer if
it has sound facilities. You can set the sound to be used for the bell under the
VNCviewer section of 'Sounds' in the Control Panel. Often a beep will happen because
you are being notified of something such as email arriving or compilation finishing.
This switch causes a minimized vncviewer to be un-minimized when a bell character
is received.
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- -listen
In the internal version of VNC used at ORL, the server can
initiate connections to the clients under CORBA control. This switch puts vncviewer into
listening mode where it can accept these connections, but it also has a useful side-effect
which may be of interest to those outside ORL. A listening vncviewer does not pop up
a connection dialog, but instead installs itself in the system tray. From there you
can easily start up new connections and can set default options to be used for them during
this instance of the program.
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- -keyboard kbdname
- Windows uses an internal and not very helpful name for the keyboard layout currently
selected for an application. You can see the one being used by vncviewer if you
select 'Connection Info' from the system menu of the viewer window. If you change
the keyboard settings and then make a note of this, you can specify it on the command line
to cause vncviewer to attempt to load this in the future. Note that vncviewer does
not currently support 'dead keys', and that the differences between language and keyboard
are confusing and the way they are handled is different in Windows 95 and NT. But
this may help a bit. Apologies for our rather anglo-centric approach at present!
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