VNC

Warren Raquel warquel at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 28 16:48:57 PST 2002


Aha, you got it on the nose. Can't believe I missed that. It was the option
for 8-bit color for slow networks. Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Patenaude" <mrp at sonic.net>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: VNC


>
> On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 02:28 , Warren Raquel wrote:
>
> > Yes. I said that I set it to 24.
> > vncserver -depth 24
>
> Okay... how about on the client side.... When you start the windoze
> vncviewer, click on the options buttion, and make sure the option
> "Restrict pixels to 8-bit" isn't checked.
>
> I also vaguely remember that some program  (maybe vncserver) although
> the option was documented as '-depth', was actually '-bpp'.. but that
> could have been some Solaris app...   Since I only use VNC for remote
> administration of windows boxen, I always keep the servers set at
> 8--bit, so I can't test it here.
>
>    -- Mitch
>
>



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