I think it's worth mentioning that apple screen sharing is pretty amazing for apple <-> apple.
You can screen share a remote mac very efficiently, drag and drop files, use keystrokes such as modifier-plus-key in a sane way, and more.
You can screen share a remote mac very efficiently, drag and drop files, use keystrokes such as modifier-plus-key in a sane way, and more.
VNC Linux/Windows > MacOS is so incredibly painful and unusable:
Multimonitor: No. Correct scaling: No. Copypaste: No. Thats only some of the bigger problems.
I wonder what Apple is doing differently with their VNC connection.
I use it over ssh myself.
for example, if I have a machine call rem:
Host rem
Hostname 10.1.2.3
User foo
IdentitiesOnly yes
IdentityFile ~/ssh/id_rem
# rem screen shares on port 5900 locally
# this forwards rem:5900 to this machine:5903
LocalForward 5903 localhost:5900
ssh rem
choose Connection -> New and enter: localhost:5903
when you log in using username/password and you will get a nice remote window on your desktop
The window has lots of nice features. You can drag files from your local desktop and drop them on the remote desktop and they are copied over.
cmd-tab in a screen sharing window works on the remote machine, but move it out of the window and it works on the local machine.
You can copy/paste between apps on the local machine and apps on the remote machine, including rich text stuff.
There is probably lots more I don't remember or haven't discovered.