Client Finnish keyboard, server Mac Mini Finnish keyboard, for the ultraVNC client change Finnish/FI to US winxp locale (using XP's/Vista's Language Bar), in OSXvnc choose 'Current Layout' and set global Mac layout to Finnish. Have same keyboard at both ends but set the 'wrong' US locale in WinXP for the ultraVNC client. MacRumors Forums. Forums Macs Mac Apps and Mac App Store [How to] control your mac using win RDP client (XRDP compiling guide on OSx) Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by coozoo, Aug 31, 2014. Most Liked Posts. Change display scaling on mac I don't remember (and i can't check because it's weekend), but i think it changes.
Hi, I'm trying to get keyboard layout mapping to work between the mac mini which is the VNC server and any remote VNC clients (linux, windows, mac). Tried ultravnc, tightvnc, realvnc clients. And 10.5.x built-in as well as Vine VNC servers. The mini has an Alphagrip keyboard with US+Finnish layouts. The client PCs have Finnish layout typically, also US or German. Problem is that any pipe, tilde, @ etc 'special' characters typed through the clients end up as umlauts or other characters in the VNC.
Any suggestions how I could make VNC work so that the VNC keyboard layout is always the client layout? Thanks, - Jan.
Thanks for pointers! Setting 'US' in OSXvnc did not work with any local client-side layout, oddly not even EN/US local + EN/US remote with OSXvnc use either 'US' or 'Current Layout'. But the following nearly works. Client Finnish keyboard, server Mac Mini Finnish keyboard, for the ultraVNC client change Finnish/FI to US winxp locale (using XP's/Vista's Language Bar), in OSXvnc choose 'Current Layout' and set global Mac layout to Finnish. Have same keyboard at both ends but set the 'wrong' US locale in WinXP for the ultraVNC client. Now nearly everything works (with this laptop and server) - all umlauts and special characters.
The only and unfortunately also critical problem is that the key ' ' does not 'work', it outputs '.' instead. On the Mac the key is on the left of spacebar, on the client on the right. I don't see how this alone could change the scancodes. But apparently it does.
Because it does not work. Is there not some UTF / Unicode version of VNC for all OS X, Windows, Linux? П˜Ÿ Or some VNC that would handle keyboard layouts smartly, transparent to the user? Another option, IME with RDP (MS Terminal Services, rdesktop) there is no problem with keyboard layouts.
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OSX has a nifty program called Screen Sharing. It lets you remotely access other computers, whether they be UNIX, Mac, Linux, Windows, or any other type of box. All the other box needs is a VNC server, which Macs have built in since 10.4.
However, using this app directly is often a pain. You have to open it up, create a new session, type in the URL/IP, and then possibly authenticate. If you, like me, are accustomed to using Terminal for most of your tasks, there is an easier and quicker way: use the 'open' command, which is built in to OSX. From a standard shell, run open as in one of these examples: open vnc://www.example.com open vnc://111.111.111.111 open vnc://mylocalserver.local If you often VNC into the same computer, you can create an alias in your shell's profile so you don't have to type the command every time. Combine this with, and you can open a VNC connection to the server of your choice in as little as 5 key-strokes! crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This is an elaboration of an.
And of course, the 'open' command can be used to open anything that LaunchServices can - files, applications, URL's, and optionally specify the app to open them with. Very powerful command - even if this is a bit of an odd use for it. You can do all you describe, or just go to the Finder (Command-Tab: 2), Connect to Server (Command-K: 4), navigate to your favorite server, and connect (Enter: 5).
There - 5 keystrokes from Terminal to connecting, and no aliases or shell machinations, and it works from any app - since you're command-tabbing to the Finder first. It would be much nicer if Screen Sharing.app would bring up your favorite VNC locations when launched from the Dock, but sadly a trip to the Finder is necessary. You could always put those favorites on the Dock as well, but then you'd lose out on keyboard access. Don't forget that you can embed the authentication like this vnc://username:password@ipaddressordomain if it's a mac that you are remoting into.
Setting them up as a shell alias is one way to do it. Storing them in Safari's bookmarks and the authentication in your keychain is another.
Since I mostly work graphically and seldom in terminal, I put all my remote control links in a folder in my bookmarks bar. This has the side effect of also making them available on my iPad, and since I have iTeleport on my iPad the links work from there too. There is also the built-in Finder capability to create a ' VNC Internet Location' file with an extension of '.vncloc' similar to a 'Web Location' file storing afp, smb or http credentials in a '.webloc' file.
This is cool. I just learned it is possible the same way an afp or smb shortcut can be made with credentials embedded:.
Create the desired connection text in Text Edit or wherever, for example, 'vnc://username:password@ipaddressordomain'. Select the entire text (without quotes) 'vnc://username:password@ipaddressordomain'. Really, don't put the password in the link. You realize that this will allow anyone with internet access to remotely access the machine in question, if they have it. Doesn't the Screen Sharing application have keychain support?
If so, I would recommend using that instead. And to the other poster, it is extremely easy to view the contents of the file. Just type cat file in the terminal. Actually, there's really no need to examine the file anyway, since it has the password in there, anyone who wants to use it just needs to open it (if they are on a Mac).
Thanks Rich, sure I use it on a daily basis (hence my desire to improve the abysmal poor user interface). I run on 10.5.8 and the application has not created such a folder.
The screen sharing app used to remeber a list of visited serves, but at some point (with some action or update) this disappeared. All I have now is Apple+N to start a small dialog for the server I want to connect to. I did create such a folder myself and added.vncloc files with the vnc:// URl in ot but that does not work either.