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August 11, 2004
VNC, part II
In fiddling further with VNC over our VPN, I changed the depth setting in my vncserver script to 8, restarted the server. Then I ran vncviewer from home with piètre quality and 8 colors (I thought):
$ vncviewer -depth 8 -quality 0 server:1 VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3) Password: VNC authentication succeeded Desktop name "login's X desktop (server:1)" Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3 VNC server default format: 8 bits per pixel. True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6 Using default colormap which is TrueColor. Pixel format: 32 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0 Using shared memory PutImage
What the heck is the TrueColor thing at the end? Am I really using only 8 bits per pixel?
Strangely, Epic came out looking better... but it's still almost too slow to use.
Posted by Mark at August 11, 2004 05:33 PM