[squeak-dev] Headless Linux squeak running max cpu

Rob Withers reefedjib at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 18 22:40:37 UTC 2010


Ok, I am setting up.  Why disable "allow remote connections"?  I will run 
this on a linux server and use RealVNC from my home machine.  Won't that 
represent a remote connection to squeak's server?

Thanks,
Rob

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From: "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Headless Linux squeak running max cpu

> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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 .
>
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> Levente
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
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> 



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