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#Alternatives to vnc for mac install
#Alternatives to vnc for mac update
#Alternatives to vnc for mac trial
#Alternatives to vnc for mac license
#Alternatives to vnc for mac plus

A fix was proposed here a year ago but has not been implemented. Instead, I used AutoHotkey to swap Ctrl/Win, just as I had to do with iRapp, but NoMachine somehow doesn't see me release the Ctrl key so Cmd-Tab, Cmd-C, Cmd-V all don't work or leave OS X thinking the Cmd key remains held down which causes all sorts of problems.

No built-in option to swap Ctrl and Win keys like Remotix has such that Ctrl- instead of Win- transmits Cmd- to OS X.

Scroll wheel is slow and can't be adjusted.

If you have to take screenshots for product documentation as I do, the color shift can be a deal breaker. I don't think even using the highest quality completely corrected the colors, though the slight shift may not matter to some users. Sadly, it has deal-killing problems for me: It uses the NX protocol which is similar in spirit to RDP and ends up being about as fast as iRapp with similar clarity. I later discovered you can flick the mouse outside Remotix window and Alt-Tab successfully.Īnother fast screen sharing option is NoMachine. Oddly, Alt-tab does bring up the Windows task switcher, but releasing tab seems to be grabbed by Remotix, leaving the task switcher window up.

Alt-tab from within Remotix doesn't switch back to other Windows apps like it did in iRapp.

#Alternatives to vnc for mac plus

On the plus side, I can copy and paste images to OS X which I can't with most VNC clients. If I flick the mouse outside the Remotix window, activate PureText hotkey, then paste in Remotix, it's a hassle, but it works.

I have PureText installed which lets you bind a hotkey to change whatever is on the clipboard to plain text format. Copying text from certain programs seems to usually (but not always) put something on the clipboard that Remotix doesn't understand and repeated pasting does nothing. Occasionally they randomly fail and work if retried. The developer says there is currently no fix for this. This can be really annoying if you click in a search box, then flick the mouse out of the way to type your search and the mouse ends up outside the window.

It ignores the keyboard if you move the mouse outside of the remote control window.

More annoying than a real problem but I miss iRapp's consistent clarity.

Text becomes almost too blurry to read when scrolling slowly, but sharpens quickly when you stop scrolling.

Mouse scroll wheel moves XCode scrollbar very slowly compared to iRapp (actually I found a "Scroll Sensitivity" in preferences and at max setting it's not too bad but still feels slightly slow).

VNC supports multiple screen compression protocols and I suspect Remotix is implementing the Apple-native protocol. I recommend 'Adaptive' screen quality because 'Full' is noticeably slow and 'Medium' shows many colors as the wrong tint. In fact, it's almost as fast as iRapp was, and it doesn't have any problems with system keys.

#Alternatives to vnc for mac trial

I finally tried a trial of Remotix which costs $39 and uses the VNC protocol, yet for some reason it's enormously faster when connecting to OS X's built-in VNC server (known as 'Screen Sharing' in system settings) than any of the other clients. UltraVNC was the fastest of the lot if set to "Ultra" speed on a LAN but drawing menus would still stall for up to 5 seconds and it has zero support for sending Cmd key. I've tried all the free VNC clients: RealVNC, TightVNC, TigerVNC, UltraVNC, and TurboVNC and they are all laggy in various places, even on a LAN, and each has various problems with transmitting system keys, especially Cmd-Tab.

#Alternatives to vnc for mac update

So far, I have resisted paying Aqua $249 knowing that their software may become useless with a future macOS update and they might not fix it for 1+ years again.

#Alternatives to vnc for mac license

iRapp had OS X El Capitan support a few months after it was released, but when I asked for a trial license from Aqua they said Aqua is still a week or more out from having a beta with support for El Capitan (and this was over a year after EC was released!). Aqua is supposedly faster (they've improved on the RDP protocol and call it AAP) but unfortunately they are slow in development. In fact, Aqua was first with RDP and they sued iRapp for reverse engineering their product, but lost the case.

#Alternatives to vnc for mac install

Even a trial license I had a copy of wouldn't install without their license server being up.Īfter some research, I found that Aqua Connect is the only iRapp competitor around that offers an OS X RDP server. As of around my license for iRapp server said it was blocked because it couldn't contact the license server and I could find no way to get it working again. IRapp was my favorite fast screen sharing server for OS X, but they went bankrupt around June 2016 and their license server was taken down at some point.