[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC for Mac - Mountain Lion anyone?

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 22 Sep at 12:31, "A. G. Birtles " <alan.birtles at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On 20/09/2012 16:26, David Pitt wrote:
> > Tim Powys-Lybbe, on 20 Sep, wrote:
> >
> > > > On 20 Sep at 12:35, Tricia Garner<tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> >> >
> > > > > > Are any Mac users running VRPC on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8)?
> > > > > > If so are there any 'issues'?
> >> >
> > > > Not this Mac user.  I was waiting for someone else to kindly
> > > > take the plunge.
> >> >
> > I jumped in with both feet as soon as Mountain Lion was released and
> > am now running 10.8.2. As far as I can see Mountain Lion makes no
> > difference to VRPC, it works as well as it did on Lion. There are no
> > additional issues.
> I did exactly the same as David with the same results, VRPC  as before
> but my iMac runs much better.
> 
> I have always had three irritations with VRPC on the Mac. 1. The mouse
> pointer was jerky and remains so, possibly slightly better with the
> trackpad. 2. On firing up VRPC I would like not to have to select
> Strong Arm from the Select Model window every time . Can this be done
> automatically ? 3. I also get a window that asks "Do you want
> VirtualRPC.app to accept incoming network connections. Deny, Allow."
> Either choice allows me to use NetSurf and Netfetch but without
> clicking on one of them I can't continue.
> 
> Am I alone with these detractions ?

No. I get them too.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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