john kumpf's community posts

when I hover over a remote connection in the viewer a popup appears with a thumbnail of the remote screen and a refresh image link and an actions menu.

Is there a way to change the size of this thumbnail preview?

I know I can change the size of the thumbnail previews that lists all of them in the main window with the preview slider in the view menu. I'm not asking about that.

I'm asking about the mouse-over popup.

Still (*S*till) the Mac Viewer is very usable and I'm getting a lot of work done with it. Still. Typo. I like the product. I can't see how to edit my previous post (firefox on macbook ventura).

A couple other Shift modifier issues.

File - Open on windows brings up the file dialog box in many applications, eg, Notepad.

Within that dialog box, Tab moves you from input box to input box, whereas Shift+Tab moves your backwards through those same input boxes.

Tab works fine in Mac Viewer.

Shift+Tab however doesn't do anything that I can detect when using Mac Viewer logged into a Windows 10 host.

Similarly, Alt+Tab on Windows cycles through applications in the "Task Switcher" or "App Switcher".

Similarly, Shift+Alt+Tab is supposed to cycle through those apps backwards.

When using Mac Viewer on a Windows 10 host Opt+Tab does bring up the task switcher and cycle through apps. However Shift+Opt+Tab does nothing as far as I can tell.

Till the Mac Viewer is very usable and I'm getting a lot of work done with it.

It is working now. Don't know what I changed. If it recurs I will post again.

One more thing: my remote cursor is not rendering.

I have local cursor set to point.

And remote cursor set to always. However no matter what setting combination, the remote cursor is not rendering. I'm not sure yet if this is on every remote machine.

Another good thing: when my macbook goes to sleep, and I wake it up, Rut viewer automatically reconnects to the hosts I was connected to, prompting me for the password.

That's good!

It happened again. Typing 'o' performed a WIN+O.

This time hitting the Shift modifier key seemed to break out of the WIN modifier down mode.

john kumpf wrote:

My mac viewer to windows 8 host is acting such that the Windows key is continually pressed on the remote machine.

Clicking around works.

But when I try to type a 'd' char, for example, into a text box, it shows the desktop (minimizes all windows) as if I had typed WIN+D.

I tried spamming the CMD and/or OPT keys, closing the viewer window and reopening, disconnecting and reconnecting.

I have not now tried: rebooting the host (it's an agent, so I have to remember to set 'rerun after reboot' and turn off Windows UAC).

I also have not now tried closing the whole viewer and restarting the viewer.

None of it worked.

But WIN modifier key is off now, I'm not sure how that happened.

On the Plus side, rebooting the installed host reconnected automatically on my viewer side. I just had to re-enter the  password. But it reused the same viewer window and re-logged in and refreshed the display view to be current.

My mac viewer to windows 8 host is acting such that the Windows key is continually pressed on the remote machine.

Clicking around works.

But when I try to type a 'd' char, for example, into a text box, it shows the desktop (minimizes all windows) as if I had typed WIN+D.

I tried spamming the CMD and/or OPT keys, closing the viewer window and reopening, disconnecting and reconnecting.

I have not tried: rebooting the host (it's an agent, so I have to remember to set 'rerun after reboot' and turn off Windows UAC).

I aslo have not tried closing the whole viewer and restarting the viewer.