Use Teleport with VNC for total remote keyboard control

Jun 02, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: ennisdb

One thing I dislike about using most VNC viewers is the inability to use commands like Command-Tab for switching applications, or Command-Space (my Quicksilver shortcut). A previous comment (and this hint) described using Teleport. And others have pointed out a VNC viewer that is built into OS X. This hint simply points out the beauty of combining those two bits of info.

If you use Apple's VNC and Teleport, you can simply drag the mouse off-screen while still viewing your VNC display, and have full keyboard access to the remote machine. Command-tab program switching and launching is a lot easier, as is activation of the Dock if you have it set up to appear when the mouse is dragged off-screen.

Now, if only, copy/paste and drag/drop worked between the machines. Then I'd be totally set.

[robg adds: Using a utility like ClipboardSharing and/or DropCopy can help with drag/drop and copy/paste problems. ClipboardSharing includes an Autosync panel that will automatically sync a clipboard between multiple machines, and DropCopy creates a small drop zone on all machines to make it easy to drag an drop files across the network.]

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