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Title: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: jgourd on November 14, 2006, 08:29:51 am

When I use the Niore Skin, if I connect to my machine via VNC, the menus are not visible. I suspect this may have something to do with the transparent nature of the menus.

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: glynor on November 14, 2006, 08:45:24 am

It does.  I created a SolidNoire skin to disable the transparency (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=35073.msg244899#msg244899) (but which is otherwise identical) because of this issue.  You can use it if you want.

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: bspachman on November 14, 2006, 10:59:31 am

FWIW, I haven't seen this issue over VNC--using the UltraVNC distribution. It seems faster to me (and with fewer redraw issues) than either TightVNC or RealVNC....

Best,
Brad

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: Matt on November 14, 2006, 11:06:00 am

Next build:

NEW: Revised how menu alpha works so text isn't alphed, background is blurred, and it won't cause issues with VNC, etc.

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: Rob L on November 15, 2006, 04:09:34 am

I'd been seeing this myself in VNC, and had just concluded it was my setup...

I used WindowBlinds, so see this quite a lot in general anyway, so had just got used to it!

Though admittedly it's complicated by the fact that I use a number of different versions of VNC as well as RDP, so I'm never quite sure whether it should work or not, but I'm glad to see that MC has had a change that helps :-)

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: joshhuggins on November 16, 2006, 03:57:23 pm

OT - How do you guys like VNC compared with Microsofts Remote Desktop? Any speed increase or security issues? TIA ;D

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: MrC on November 16, 2006, 04:29:56 pm

Quote from: joshhuggins on November 16, 2006, 03:57:23 pm

OT - How do you guys like VNC compared with Microsofts Remote Desktop? Any speed increase or security issues? TIA ;D

They are both very good.  There is no real security in VNC; you can use plugins for some packages, or tunnel via SSH if you want security.  VNC of course works client / server on pretty much any platform, whereas RD is a Windows-only solution of course.

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: Rob L on November 16, 2006, 04:35:28 pm

Hm, you can certainly use RDP both ways under Linux too...

I use both VNC and RDP - they both have advantages and disadvantages.

They work quite differently though. There are just certain things you can't do with Remote Desktop, since it uses a virtual display driver. VNC simply mirrors the output from your video card, so more things work (like stuff that relies on 3D hardware, for instance)

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: MrC on November 17, 2006, 06:23:49 pm

Quote from: Rob L on November 16, 2006, 04:35:28 pm

Hm, you can certainly use RDP both ways under Linux too...

I only know of xrdp, which is in very early stages.  Which non-MS RDP server do you know about?

Title: Re: Niore Skin Broken in VNC
Post by: Rob L on November 18, 2006, 05:30:58 am

well xrdp is in beta.

There's also Thinstuff's server.