VNC Connections

VNC QuickDesk - Connections

Contents

Create
Delete
Copy
Move
Edit
Rename
RFB Version inquery
FTP
HTTP
Connect
Import

Create a Connection
Right click the mouse with the cursor in the right window and select "New from the context menu, or press the <CTRL+n> key combination.
You may also click on the symbol on the toolbar.

The following dialog window appears, in which you may enter information about the new connection:

The information you enter on the connection page will enable VNC QuickDesk to make a connection via the WinVNC Viewer, with a remote computer running the WinVNC Server program.

Name of the Connection: Give the connection a name.
Address (IP or Host) of the Connection: Enter the IP address or the name of the remote computer to which you wish to connect. If the machine running the server does not have a proper DNS entry, you probably won't be able to use the name and will have to use something like 192.168.1.2:2 . You can get round this on most platforms by creating a 'hosts' file which maps names onto IP addresses. Consult your local guru for help with this.
Display of the Connection: Enter the display number of the computer to which you wish to be connected conforming to the standard value of display 0 = port 5900 (your display number will depend on how you have configured the WinVNC server on your system).
VNC FileServer Port: According to the standard 6010 (your port might vary from this standard depending on your requirements).
Password: Enter the password for the VNC Sever here.

The information on the VNC Viewer page refers exclusively to the WinVNC Viewer program.

Preferred encoding: This option offers a list of encodings to use. The default selections are "hextile" encoding and "Allow CopyRect encoding".
Request shared session: When you make a connection to a VNC server, all other existing connections are normally closed. This is for security reasons, and because we normally think of VNC as a tool for mobility: your desktop follows you from place to place. This option asks the server to leave any existing connections open, allowing you to share the desktop with someone already using it. Some servers have options to change the default behavior and to override this request.
Deiconify on Bell: 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.
Disable clipboard transfer: Clipboard changes caused by cutting or copying at either the viewer or server end are normally transmitted to the other end. This option disables clipboard transfers.
Emulate 3 Buttons (with 2-button click): Users with a two-button mouse can emulate a middle button by pressing both buttons at once if this option is enabled on the command line or in the dialog box. Note: On recent versions of the WinVNC Viewer, this is the default and you must turn it off via the command line with a -noemulate3 option).
Swap mouse buttons 2 and 3: This option was more commonly used before the 3-button emulation was available. 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. If combined with 3-button emulation, this also causes the middle button to emulate button 3 instead of button 2. This may be useful if you use button 2 more.
Restrict pixel to 8-bit: The viewer will normally accept whatever pixel format the server offers and do the translation locally. This forces it to request 8-bit true-color (BGR233) from the server, which will reduce network traffic. Useful over modems.
View only: In View-only mode, no mouse or keyboard events will be sent back to the server. This is useful for teaching sessions or other situations where you want to observe but don't want to interfere.
Full-screen mode: This causes connections to start in full-screen mode by default. This is particularly useful when connecting to a remote screen which is the same size as your local one. If the remote screen is bigger, you won't get any scrollbars, but you can scroll by bumping the mouse against the edge of the screen. To leave fullscreen mode you must disable it from the menu, but the menu is no longer visible! So you have to bring the taskbar to the front by typing Ctrl-Esc Esc, and then right-click on the vncviewer icon. A dialog box will appear when you select fullscreen mode to remind you of this; if, after a while you get annoyed with the dialog box, you can disable it by creating a DWORD registry value named: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\; VNCviewer\Settings\SkipFullScreenPrompt and setting it to 1. A simpler method will be in a future version!
Scale by: Specify a scaling factor for the local display. The values n and m should be integers.

Click on "Add" to close the window and save the connection information to the name you specified at the beginning.

Delete a Connection
Select a connection (or select several using common Windows selection methods) and press the <DELETE> key or right click on one of the connections and select "Delete". In addition, you may click in the Toolbar on the symbol.

Copy a Connection
Select a connection (or select several using common Windows selection methods) and press the <CTRL+c> combination of keys, or right click on one of the connections and select "Copy". If you want to copy the connection(s) into another folder, change to the new folder and press the <CTRL+v> combination of keys or right click in the connecting window and select "Paste". If you want to create a copy of this connection within the same folder, you may do so as described, but keep the copy in the same folder.

Move a Connection
Select a connection (or select several using common Windows selection methods) and press the <CTRL+x>, combination of keys , or right click on one of the connections and select "Delete". Change into the destination folder and press the <CTRL+v> combination of keys or click the right mouse button in the destination window and select "Paste".

Edit a Connection
Right click the connection which you would like to work on and select "Edit", or you press the combination of keys <CTRL+e>. In addition, you may select the connection and click on the symbol on the toolbar.

Rename a Connection
Right click on the connection, which you would like to rename and select "Rename", or press the <F2> key after selecting the connection. You will be presented with a dialog box in which you may enter the new name of the connection.

RFB Version query
If you wish to determine the version of the VNC of server on the remote end, right click on the connection and select "RFB version..." from the "Tools" context menu.

FTP Connection to Target Computer
If you wish to establish an ftp connection to the target computer, right click the connection and select "FTP..." from the context menu. The default browser is started with the URL "ftp:\\target computer".

HTTP Connection to Target Computer
If you wish to establish an HTTP connection to the target computer, right click the connection and select "HTTP..." from the context menu. The default browser is started with the URL "http:\\target computer".

Connection to Target Computer
Double click on the desired connection. The viewer entered in the global option window is then started. You may also right click on the connection and select "Connect" from the context menu. If the viewer is the standard WinVNC Viewer and you did not store a password for this connection, you will be presented with a dialog box into which you must enter a password before the connection is established.

Import
Click on the symbol in the Toolbar. Select the VNC-connection info (*.vnc) file which may be imported.