Bioinformatics Applications LITBIO Main Menu

Once you've connected to your session, you should get a big window in your browser. On top of the window are three buttons:

• Disconnect - used to temporarily disconnect from the session. Important! This doesn't log you out, you can come back to this session later, maybe from a different location.
• Options - you can change some of the parameters used by VNC
• Clipboard - used for cut and paste between you real desktop and the X desktop running in the VNC session

Inside the window will be (usually) three things running.

• The Menu ToolBox. This is the little window at the top left of the screen. The Menu... button on the left allows you to access the option in the Menu. The mail button selects the pine mailer. The Log Out button will permanently close your VNC session.

  Please log out of your VNC session when you've finished using it, using the Log Out button and not the disconnect button. We can only run a small number of VNC sessions at any one time.

• An initial application. If none was specified, a unix window will appear.

• A window manager. The interface is rather similar to Windows 95, so that windows have three buttons on the right of the titlebar to minimize (iconize), maximize (full screen), and close the window. The button on the left of the titlebar gives a menu of the same sorts of options. You can move a window by grabbing the titlebar with the left mouse button. You can get menus by clicking on the background.

  The interface is deliberately cut-down and modified for use with VNC. For example, wherever possible scrollbars, titlebars, etc use solid color rather than stipple or shading. The functionality is also limited so as to limit the contents of the VNC session to the bare minimum, to try and improve performance.