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| author | Peter Åstrand <astrand@cendio.se> | 2004-12-30 11:44:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Åstrand <astrand@cendio.se> | 2004-12-30 11:44:55 +0000 |
| commit | 8373a7f90a85bcf468a629e1661d3552b967366c (patch) | |
| tree | 432a33bbad3a572cc47e3eddd40c7ed0df124293 | |
| parent | c81a652be369e931f913044f0f7ef1cd6743e3d4 (diff) | |
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Updated section about autoselect wrt full-color mode.
Documents that the Tight encoding is available.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/tigervnc/code/trunk@70 3789f03b-4d11-0410-bbf8-ca57d06f2519
| -rw-r--r-- | vncviewer_unix/vncviewer.man | 24 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/vncviewer_unix/vncviewer.man b/vncviewer_unix/vncviewer.man index f5890a46..fc7439c8 100644 --- a/vncviewer_unix/vncviewer.man +++ b/vncviewer_unix/vncviewer.man @@ -38,11 +38,18 @@ encoding and pixel format (color level) appropriately. This makes it much easier to use than previous versions where the user had to specify arcane command line arguments. -The viewer normally starts out assuming the link is slow, using a low color -level and using the encoding with the best compression. If it turns out that -the link is fast enough it switches to full-color mode and will use an -encoding which compresses less but is faster to generate, thus improving the -interactive feel. Automatic selection can be turned off by setting the +The viewer normally starts out assuming the link is slow, using the +encoding with the best compression. If it turns out that the link is +fast enough it switches to an encoding which compresses less but is +faster to generate, thus improving the interactive feel. + +The viewer normally starts in full-color mode, but switches to +low-color mode if the bandwidth is insufficient. However, this only +occurs when communicating with servers supporting protocol 3.8 or +newer, since many old servers does not support color mode changes +safely. + +Automatic selection can be turned off by setting the \fBAutoSelect\fP parameter to false, or from the options dialog. .SH POPUP MENU @@ -133,10 +140,7 @@ encoding and pixel format appropriately. Turn it off with \fB-AutoSelect=0\fP. .TP .B \-FullColor, \-FullColour Tells the VNC server to send full-color pixels in the best format for this -display. By default a low color mode is used until AutoSelect decides the -link is fast enough. However if the server's native pixel format is -colormapped (as opposed to truecolor) then the server's format is used by -default. +display. This is default. .TP .B \-LowColorLevel, \-LowColourLevel \fIlevel\fP @@ -146,7 +150,7 @@ from 0 to 2, 0 meaning 8 colors, 1 meaning 64 colors (the default), 2 meaning .TP .B \-PreferredEncoding \fIencoding\fP -This option specifies the preferred encoding to use from one of "ZRLE", +This option specifies the preferred encoding to use from one of "Tight", "ZRLE", "hextile" or "raw". .TP |