[ale] VNC viewing troubles

[William Fragakis]

You may wish to give freenx a try. I tend to have better luck with
nomachine's clients rather than the freenx client but the freenx server
is great. 

Works great to remotely administer a system.

regards,
William


On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 19:44 -0500, Gray Frost wrote:
> I am having trouble with viewing in VNC.
> 
> 
>  System:  Ubuntu 9.10 x64 running x11vnc server
>   Client: Ubuntu 9.10 runing vncviewer or tightvnc on a 1005ah eeepc
>   running eeebuntu.
> 
>   Issue:  Scrollbars lock up.....
> 
>    if I use any scaling at all so that the image fits the 1024x600
>   notebook screen the scroll bars on the side  and bottom scroll down
>   and to the right just fine but lock up once touched never to be moved
>   up or left again thus making the session useless.
>   I haven't found anything on the internet but I have had this issue
> when ever I have
>   tried to vnc.  So why me?  I have seen this before for years on other
>   comps and eventually gave up on VNC remotely.
>   If I use -fullscreen mode I can navigate just fine but at the native
>   1680x1050 resolution which is painful on the notebook which has a
>   resolution of 1024x600.  And then of course since I can't see my own
>   notebook screen I have to Alt + F1 to get out of the vnc graphic
>   screen to kill the vncviewer << works but very annoying.
> 
>   Things tried:  Everything LOL, all sorts of scaling settings, geometry
>   settings, disabling compiz, using different clients etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gray
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