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Remote Desktop for OS X that's better than VNC?
iRapp was my favorite fast screen sharing server for OS X, but they went bankrupt around June 2016 and their license server was taken down at some point. As of around Oct 2, 2016 my license for iRapp ...
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What protocol does TeamViewer use?
TeamViewer uses its own proprietary protocol. It is not documented, though its authentication layer has been partially analyzed:
http://www.ixiacom.com/about-us/news-events/corporate-blog/magic-...
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Setting display resolution beyond 1024x768 with headless Windows 10?
I experienced something similar when trying to stream from a computer that only had network and power connected; here's what worked for me (source):
Open regedit, navigating to
HKLM\SYSTEM\...
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Remmina: Unknown authentication scheme from VNC server: 13, 5, 6, 130, 192
A bit neater write up on the same under the link below. Tested against default VNC server on Raspberry Pi 3 running Debian 11 (Bullseye).
https://docs.linuxconsulting.mn.it/notes/remmina-vnc-raspberry
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vnc viewer error: unable connect to socket: Connection refused (111)
Also you might want to try this option:
-localhost no
The command that works for me is:
vncserver -localhost no -geometry 800x600 -depth 24
The idea is to have vncserver listen on the network ...
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Good video quality over VNC or RDP?
So why don't the videos play well when I am using RDP or VNC, and is
there any solution?
Easy. VNC and RDP are very practical/pragmatic protocols designed mainly for remote systems access and ...
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How can I make VNC faster?
Try to use this:
-snapfb
Instead of polling the X display framebuffer (fb) for changes, periodically copy all of X display fb into main memory and examine
that copy for changes. Under some ...
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Using Clipboard with Xfce and TightVNC
How did you setup autocutsel? I created a xstartup file under the ~/.vnc directory, with the following content:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/autocutsel -s CLIPBOARD -fork
Then you need to make it executable:
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VNC server configuration for multi-monitor support
The trick here is to generate a virtual monitor on the server, place it in relation to the real monitor wherever you would like it to be, then instruct VNC to use that portion of the total monitor (...
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How to get color-depth or pixel desnity right for a remote desktop to CentOS using VNCServer?
Have you tried changing the viewer's picture quality settings? While in a connection select the cog icon from the viewer's toolbar. Then set picture quality to High.
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How to change screen resolution of VNC server without restarting it?
With TigerVNC Windows VNC client (viewer) auto resolution works out of the box. No need to set anything anywhere, on the client or on the server. When you first connect to your server, the resolution ...
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Setting display resolution beyond 1024x768 with headless Windows 10?
It appears that with recent Windows versions the regedit paths had changed. Keys starting with SIMULATED are no longer showing up, but NOEDID are the ones to use (as of October 2020).
I managed to set ...
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No mouse cursor when no physical mouse device plugged in
You can try turn on mouse keys feature (when it enabled mouse cursor always is always displayed):
Open Control Panel
Open Ease of Access Center
Click Make the mouse easier to use
Click on the Turn on ...
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How can I configure UFW to allow VNC access to my computer from a specific IP address?
From https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/ufw-essentials-common-firewall-rules-and-commands
This would be
sudo ufw allow from 1.2.3.4 to any port 5900
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loosing vnc control when i run an administrator task
It sounds like the VNC server is running in User Mode and can only interact with other processes running in the same (non-elevated) context as the logged on user. As a result, VNC cannot interact with ...
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Remmina: Unknown authentication scheme from VNC server: 13, 5, 6, 130, 192
I tried both passwords, adding the line Authentication=VncAuth to the end of .vnc/config.d/vncserver-x11 and disabling encryption
Modifying the .vnc/config.d/vncserver-x11 file changes how vncserver ...
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How do I switch in/out of fullscreen mode from the command line in RealVNC?
I'm going to go off-path a little and answer this also for the RealVNC fork TigerVNC, since they both have the same F8 context-menu.
TigerVNC from v1.4.90 onwards lets you type F8 F to toggle the ...
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Why is my VNC cursor just a dot?
I want to add some insights about Windows 10 VNC viewing. If you have trouble seeing a mouse cursor on a Windows 10 machine with no mouse attached, you can enable the "mouse control using Numpad keys" ...
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Gaming over LAN, VNC alternative?
You can use the in home streaming from steam. Mine works VERY well with my desktop connected via Gigabit LAN, and the laptop on 5Ghz AC. Just remember to go through the settings and check the box to ...
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How to start a VNC session with multiple monitor
I used TightVNC a lot at my last job, and most VNC solutions are based off of the open VNC standard.
With the way VNC works and what you want to do, the only way to get this done is to set the ...
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No mouse cursor when no physical mouse device plugged in
So I did some testing, people have posted the correct solutions here but the order of operations makes a huge difference.
Firstly some points to get right:
There's kind of two ways to enable/disable ...
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What's the difference between RDP vs VNC?
Adding a bit of information on other answers which I found while doing a research,
RDP,
RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol. It is a proprietary protocol built by Microsoft to let users to ...
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RealVNC Viewer: How can I escape from the remote desktop screen by using keys?
I don't know about any hotkey for escaping nor way to define it at RealVNC Viewer. I would really love to know.
Meanwhile, I use two workarounds for this:
Pressing some hotkey that is defined (say ...
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Can Windows be set to not prompt the local user for a password after a remote desktop user has logged off?
After I end the RDP session, the remote machine is locked and will not
allow a local user to do anything until they log in. Is there way to
change this so that once an RDP session is ended, the remote ...
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TigerVNC viewer: no matching security types
Using RealVNC
As user rodrunner suggested in the comments, one way to get the VNC connection going is by using RealVNC's vncviewer.
Make sure to uninstall TigerVNC or any other VNC implementations ...
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RDP Alternative on linux (Ubuntu 18)
Windows RDP achieves its speed by the fact that both server and client are created
by Microsoft, which allows it to be heavily optimized.
For example: RDP uses compression to speed up the screen ...
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Gaming over LAN, VNC alternative?
Steam Remote Play is definitively an option. Been playing a lot of times to e.g. Rocket League. If you have good LAN connection on both sides, you are good to go. Even can plug the gamepad on laptop.
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Is there an issue to be fixed when traceroute consistently prints a line with "6 * * *"?
No, there is nothing to fix as regards your traceroute.
First, the only devices on that list that are NOT routers are the first and the last. Every hop represents a router. Some of these routers may ...
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Moving files from one host to another (VNC)
TightVNC offers file transfer. What flavor of VNC server is installed on the remote host?
Using clipboard copy and paste, open a remote file, save it as a .cmd file, and then copy/paste the contents ...
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TigerVNC viewer: no matching security types
Assuming RealVNC is not supported on the platform you are using (which is my case with arm64 Arch) I found the following solution.
As root, edit the config file in /root/.vnc/config.d/vncserver-x11
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