This article describes how to enable Mac's built-in VNC Server. Please note: Jump Desktop 4.0.3 and above is compatible with Mac's Screen Sharing feature and you no longer require the VNC Server t.
| Developer(s) | Geekspiff |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Objective-C |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Virtual Network Computing |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | Chicken at SourceForge |
Chicken of the VNC is a Virtual Network Computing client for Mac OS X licensed under the GNU General Public License. Development has been stalled since 2005. The name is a play on words referencing the canned tuna brand Chicken of the Sea.
In October 2010, development was revived on SourceForge under the name Chicken[citation needed], where versions were released there up through version 2.2b2 (released November 16, 2011). Chicken was cloned to a github project , with a 2.2b3 build released on October 21, 2016 which was targeted at Mac OS X Lion (10.7) and above, along with 64-bit processors (macOS Catalina, released October 7, 2019, dropped 32-bit support, causing older releases of Chicken and Chicken of the VNC to stop functioning).
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- http://murphymac.com/chicken-of-the-vnc/ - A tutorial on how to use Chicken of the VNC on a Mac
You are viewing the actual display screen, not a virtual screen. As far as I know, the only way to change the screen size is to use the remote system's System Preferences -> Displays -> Resolutions.
However, I do know that Mac OS X Lion does seem to allow a virtual screen if you do not connect to the current active user, but rather to a another user that would be accessible via Fast User Switching. I do not know if you can mess with that user's System Preferences -> Displays -> Resolutions independent from the current active user controlling the physical display output (yes I know you have not connected a screen, but the primary user's output would be seen on an attached screen if it was connected, were as the Fast User Switching user does not have a screen until they are switched to the monitor, and when you remotely login in and DO NOT Fast User Switch, they never get control of that physical screen, so I'm making a wild guess that you might be able to do what you want, or not :-) ).
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Normally I also run a headless Mac mini, but at the moment it does have a monitor attached, and it is running Leopard, so I cannot experiment with Lion's Fast User Switching to see if my above guess is correct.