Desktop Transporter Help
Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Yellow Lemon Software, all rights
reserved.
Limitations and plans for the
future
Desktop Transporter is an entirely new application, and it is bound to
have its bugs, weaknesses and limitations. I hope to correct these
things as time progresses, and I am naturally dependent on
receiving bug reports and feature requests.
First, some known limitations that most likely won’t be fixed, due to
limitations in Mac OS X:
Desktop
Transporter may not work properly (if at all) on "headless" Macs (that
is, Macs without one or more monitors attached)
Desktop
Transporter’s behaviour when the shared displays go to sleep is
currently undefined, and not guaranteed to work
Desktop
Transporter doesn't handle resolution changes when the application
changing the resolution prevents others from "seeing" the change. For
instance, Mplayer playing a movie in fullscreen exhibits this problem,
as does many games.
Other
issues that I intend to fix in newer versions:
Desktop
Transporter handles changes in resolution or bit-depth
of local displays, but the behaviour under these conditions has not
been extensively tested. In order to ensure proper operation, you
shouldn’t change the resolution or bit-depth of local displays after
starting Desktop Transporter. If any bugs with this behaviour is
discovered, they will be fixed in the next version of
Desktop Transporter.
Improving
performance. Desktop Transporter currently doesn't make use of all the
features available in Mac OS X - in particular, one feature which
should
substantially reduce bandwidth requirements when moving windows or
scrolling text.
Currently,
no traffic is sent in encrypted form. That means that you should be
careful when typing passwords or similar sensitive information to the
shared display, as they will be transferred in an unencrypted form.
(Note that the password you use when connecting to a shared display
will not be sent over the
network, so you need not be concerned with this particular password.
Beware, however, that this password is stored as clear text in Desktop
Transporter's preferences file.)
Finally, you
should be aware that a visual loop will occur if you share two desktops
on two different Macs, and then connect from one both Macs to
eachother. If you attempt to interract with the "remote remote"
desktop, you will cause an infinite loop, requiring you to force quit
one of the Desktop Transporter instances.
If you encounter
any bugs or crashes, please don't hesitate to send
me a crash report.