My reply (Steve's) is in-lined below. On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:43:12PM -0500, gregrwm wrote: > > > > My problem with VNC is that it is unencrypted. I did write a couple of > > scripts > > that make the VNC traffic encrypted with the help of SSH. > > > > encrypted connections are easy, no scripts needed, eg connect vx-connectbot > (or other ssh client) to your server, forward a port, eg 5905 for vnc > display :5, and connect bvnc via that port. vx-connectbot and bvnc will > remember your parameters for your connections so you don't need to re-enter > them again later. I'll check out bvnc and vx-connectbot. Thanks for the pointer. > keyboards on smartphones just plainly suck. > > > > you are swyping, right? swyping works well more often than not even if > your finger only comes somewhat near the intended letters. eg for gmail. Swyping? No. I'll try doing that. I have HEARD of that. I'm not surprised that you need < hackers keyboard > because the android keyboard programs don't always do the correct thing when you are connected to something that expects a < PC keyboard >. > swyping however doesn't seem to work for vx-connectbot or bvnc. i use > hackers keyboard for them. Well, that is unfortunate. Thanks, Greg, for your input! ~ Steve ~