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Ok, I gotta ask again, this is drivin' me nuts...with no trackball/pad, how do you control the mouse and right/left click with a N900?

I assume that every touch on the screen is submitted as a click on that location and right click might be achieved by a modifier key?

VNC is nice, but for locally controlling the N900 from your desktop PC, Synergy would be even cooler imo..
hope it get's ported (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=15044)

In tablet versions of VNC Viewer, you used the + and - hardware keys to get middle and right clicks for the mouse. But pressing these keys on the N900 while in VNC Viewer only adjusts the volume. I'm going to have to do some more research...

Thanks qole. Please let me know. I've been really curious how the mouse is controlled (both guiding and L/R clicking) from a N900 when remoting into a desktop.

I've even seen VNC listed in the apps screen in a N900 video, but it wasn't demonstrated and for all I know might have been VNC server, not he client. I'm not much interested in remoting into a N900, I don't see much point in that anyway. I need to run desktops from a N900.

I would think that you can point with the stylus or your finger?
Or can a mouse pointer be activated as in the default browser?

I've got an oddball question.

Since the screen display becomes much more limited using VNCViewer on the tablet, is there a way to remove the Title Bar (blue bar thingie on top that has minimize, maximize, close, etc.) for programs under Windows XP?

It's not really needed and takes up some precious pixels on the display screen.

I've been searching through Google today but can't find the correct answer for this.

in most programs f11 takes care of not showing the blue bar in windows.

Now sorry if I'm hijacking this as it is specific to VNC, whereas my input isn't. I was just wondering if there were any programs that could actually use the browser as a VNC type application. For instance, at work I have connected to servers via a specific port using a web browser - now I'm sorry as I can't for the life of me remember what this is called - but I think it is on HP servers, so is something built into the server. But my point is, could an application be built (if there isn't one already) to connect with a VNC server and then serve its own web based view of the desktop? That way the inbuilt mouse processing - and majority of the application is already on the N900 - along with perfect zooming etc.

I'm certain there are plenty of downfalls with this - the biggest one being that I have a feeling the example I gave ran in the browser using java!?!? Though I'm not entirely sure.

I suppose I'm thinking that if there was a web interface to VNC it would be ideal - but then so would winning the lottery...

Thanks for listening to my spiel anyway.

There is a web interface to VNC but, as you say, it requires java (it actually just serves up a java applet which does all the work).

VNC client on the N900 is a fantastic way to watch what your kid is doing on the computer in another room from the comforts of your couch. I knew there was a parenting reason to own a N900!