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

[Alan Birtles]

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Subject: Re: [Virtualacorn-list] VRPC for Mac - Mountain Lion anyone?
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:14:06 +0100
From: David Pitt <pittdj at pittdj.co.uk>
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"A. G. Birtles ", on 22 Sep, wrote:

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>> 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.

 >True.

>> 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 ?

 >That does not happen on my Mac VRPC but does on the two Windows VRPCs.

 > In va.cfg the value of 'forceselect' needs to be 0 to disable that
 > menu. (On Windows there is an option to "Show this window at startup" 
 > which can be unticked.)

 > This is at the top of my Mac va.cfg :-

 > [Model]
 > forceselect = 0
 > Name = "StrongARM"

>> 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.

 > No, that does not happen here.
 > I have Virtual RPC 1.7.0.

Thank you David for your help. I have followed your set up for va.cfg 
and problem 2 above is now sorted on my Virtual RPC 1.7.0

With problem 3 I have checked in Security and Privacy that the firewall 
is set to accept incoming connections from VirtualRPC but I still get 
the window.

Regards Alan

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