Ah I see. Well that should work. It's obviously connecting since you get the dot.
I've had similar issues with TightVNC before. It sits for ages saying it is doing the initial screen draw, but never connects.
I'd suggest trying RealVNC (realvnc.com).
*VNC Free Edition for Linux (x86) http://www.realvnc.com/cgi-bin/download.cgi
*JC* * On 3/22/07, David A. Woyciesjes david.woyciesjes@yale.edu wrote:
Justin Cataldo wrote:
On 3/21/07, *David A. Woyciesjes* <david.woyciesjes@yale.edu mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu> wrote:
Need some pointers here. I've got CentOS 4.4, and I want to control my OSX 10.4.9 box via VNC. It connects, and I get a little dot for the mouse cursor, but just a black screen. I can see the mousecontrolling
the OSX desktop... Here's the output when I start in a terminal: [d@f ~]$ vncviewer VNC server supports protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3) VNC authentication succeeded Desktop name "xxxxxxxx" Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3 VNC server default format: 32 bits per pixel. Most significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green8
blue 0 Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Using default colormap which is TrueColor. Pixel format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 31 green 63 blue 31, shift red 11 green 5blue 0
Using shared memory PutImage ShmCleanup called [d@f ~]$ vncviewer --version TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9Are you running Vine Server (/OSXvnc/)
< http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=64523&filename=V...
on your mac?
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html http://www.redstonesoftware.com/downloads/index.html
JC
No, I just enabled the built-in Apple Remote Desktop. As suggestedhere: http://www.macminicolo.net/Mac_VNC_tutor.html
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