On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Rob Withers wrote:

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> From: "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 3:42 PM
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Headless Linux squeak running max cpu
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>> Install RFB (it's available on squeaksource). It will give full access to 
>> the image. If you never used it, here are a few tips:
>> After installing the package, in the world menu select open..., then 
>> RFB/VNC Server. In the connections submenu set an interactive password. It 
>> doesn't have to be strong, since you'll tunnel your connection through ssh. 
>> In the connections submenu disable "allow remote connections". In the 
>> performance submenu set "allow ZRLE encoding" and disable "conserve 
>> memory". Then start your server. Note that the tcp port is display number + 
>> 5900. So if you want your server to listen on 5901, then select display 
>> number 1.
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>> Squeak's RFB implementation is a bit picky, it won't accept connections 
>> with certain client settings. For example it doesn't support other display 
>> bitdepth than the image's depth. So if you're using RealVNC as a client, 
>> then set the preferred encoding to ZRLE and select Full color (your image 
>> probably uses 32-bits as depth). And make sure you turn off the "Render 
>> cursor locally" option.
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> What does RFB stand for?  I intend to check this out.

Remote Frame Buffer. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing 
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFB_protocol .


Levente

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> Thanks,
> Rob 
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