Comments on: DisplayConfigX + VNC = Perfectly Sized Screen

By: mr. Obsession

mr. Obsession — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:31:43 +0000

“Say, slightly off topic… have you had any issues with your Mini waking up and not going back to sleep? For a time, I tried using the NMS Sleep Agent, but that was actually too aggressive. Kept putting the Mini asleep during EyeTV recordings.”

Sorry…my Mini has been freakishly stable ever since I bought it last year.

I will now go knock on wood!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:09:15 +0000

Ah, cool. I actually love having a keyboard in the living room. I use a Belkin MediaPilot. It doesn’t work natively, but with Controller Mate, it’s a dream. Plus, Controller Mate is soooo much fun to set up. I’ve got all kinds of neat application-specific shortcuts programmed into the extra media keys. Very fun.

Say, slightly off topic… have you had any issues with your Mini waking up and not going back to sleep? For a time, I tried using the NMS Sleep Agent, but that was actually too aggressive. Kept putting the Mini asleep during EyeTV recordings.

By: mr. Obsession

mr. Obsession — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:44:51 +0000

Rob,

VNC is the a lifesaver/efficiency expert in so many situations. I use it on my office machine to set up EyeTV on my Mini before turning the HDTV on…it essentially removed the necessity of having a keyboard in the living room.

Just one more example!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:38:02 +0000

Hey this is really clever. This is a silly reason, but I’ve been looking for a reason to try and use VNC. Nice.

For my setup, I’ve got the Mini as home theater machine and a PowerMac as an office desktop. The two share a common iTunes library. Unfortunately, iTunes isn’t really great for this arrangement. Especially if both computers also share the database files (*.xml). In fact, iTunes won’t run on both machines simultaneously if these files are shared.

I can see now how VNC would let me shut down iTunes on one computer from within the other.