On v, dec 16, 2012 at 13:51:33 +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
[...]
> Ah that one - I normally run it from a shell and supply the hostname on
> the command line so I don't see it. You can control it with X resources,
> e.g. add this to .Xdefaults (and xrdb -merge .Xdefaults to have it take
> effect immediately) :-
> 
> Ssvnc.serverDialog.dialog.label.font: 
> -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> I'm not sure what the default is.

Thanks! But how did you figure that resource name out? :)

> The 'engine' is the same (ssvnc just calls out to the normal vncviewer
> binary), but it's a Tcl/Tk front-end app, which takes care of tunnelling
> and command-line parameters for vncviewer. One non-obvious feature that
> is occasionally useful (for example, if you leave something on a running
> desktop on a machine at home and need to access it remotely), if you set
> 'use SSH', then in 'options', you can 'automatically find X session' -
> this will attempt to ssh across, run x11vnc on the remote side and
> connect to your X desktop.

That is a hell of a feature; up to now I didn't even bother to dig in
to ssvnc's ui.


Daniel

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