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Category: Remote logins – ssh and vnc

How to exit vncviewer’s fullscreen mode? full screen

Published by admin-joel on 2022-09-09

In Jan 2024:

click mouse inside window you want to take in or out of full screen – this gives this window primacy. E.g., vnc

hit <fn> f8 to bring up a menu with “full screen” option at top.*

Now let go of those two keys and that menu should persist

Now either click on full screen or else hit f key

This should toggle in and out of full screen mode.

*If menu is flashing, while keeping the <fn> f8 keys held down, also enter f (yes hand-gymnastics!)

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On Sep 9, 2022 I had gave  the following two solutions. Don’t seem to work as of Jan 2024

To exit from full-screen mode, press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F.

Alternately, press Ctrl-Esc Esc and then right-click on the vncviewer taskbar icon to see the menu.

adjusting screen lock duration

Published by jweisber on 2022-01-02

in very top right of screen, on banner is an icon that is a circle, broken on top with a dot in middle of break.  hit it!  >>Joel Weisberg (or your name here)>>Account Settings.
Look on far left of resulting popup at the “Details” column which has a left arrow next to it.
Hit the left arrow to open up the “settings” column and scroll ‘way down to, and select “privacy.”
Then hit <cntrl>screenlock and you can select from a menu of “lock screen after blank for
<? minutes>.

–Joel. (Yes what a pain! This was really hard to figure out because it is so buried.)

control-click on a vnc session from a mac

Published by jweisber on 2021-03-04

Without control-(mouse) click, a lot of functionality is lost.  I have finally figured out how to geve the equivalent of it on a mac, when running a vncviewer window on the mac.

On the mac, go to apple>>system preferences>>Trackpad>>Secondary click.

Under the Trackpad pane;’s “Secondary Click” are:
–A check box –   check it.
–A pulldown menu under “Secondary Click” where you can choose what action will represent the control-click. I chose “click in bottom left corner.”

And indeed, when I click trackpad in lower left corner on a VNCviewer session, the vnc session responds as if I had hit control-click.

Ssh security

Published by jweisber on 2021-03-04

Directions from Bruce. (BDUFFY 2021-02-17. )Thanks Bruce! Slightly updated by Joel. These were specifically for setting up to ssh to new mirzam, but are relevant for any new host.

Remove old mirzam entries from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file  (It looks like very long lines of gibberish. A hostname or its internet number [ie 137.22.301.5] starts each line.)

The next time you ssh into to an astronet machine, ssh will ask you

(base) bduffy66924:~ bduffy$ ssh bduffy@mirzam.physics.carleton.edu
The authenticity of host ‘mirzam.physics.carleton.edu (137.22.6.129)’ can’t be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:nersU93cf8F5ucysog/Rn2OIbSabknw10hpw5uXFs3o.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added ‘mirzam.physics.carleton.edu’ (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
bduffy@mirzam.physics.carleton.edu: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
(base) bduffy66924:~ bduffy$

See ./astronet-server-ssh-public-keys.txt

2021 05 17:  JMW does not know what directory ^ this is in.

Also, I had to add the authorized_keys file to one of my home macs’ .ssh directory in order to get all the way in to canopus.  See email from Bruce on 2021 05 17 for more details.