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Hi Dan.
We’re aware of the uncomfortable behaviour and we’re already working on a solution.
In order to automatically scroll the viewport when the virtual keyboard opens, we need to know where the input caret is located. While this can be done pretty easily on Windows, X11 and macOS are quite limited and we’re still looking for the right way to retrieve that information. Any hints from our great community is more than welcome. 🙂

As you probably know, it is not possible to reduce the size of the virtual keyboard to grant more space to the remote desktop, but there are multiple ways to improve the input experience:
1. If you’re on iPad you can detach or split the keyboard and move it around by keeping the input spot visible.
2. You can zoom the area and move it above the keyboard (pinch out gesture to zoom, three fingers pan to move).
3. You can connect a bluetooth keyboard to the iPhone/iPad so the virtual keyboard will not be shown. Of course this is not the best solution on the move, but it’s worth to be mentioned. 🙂

At last, if you don’t use the extended keyboard you can disable it from Input settings and gain a few more valuable pixels.

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Rand, we’ve found the problem occurs only on iPhone using iOS 11. This is the Trouble Report documenting it:

Virtual keyboard flickers when tapping the connection search box on iPhone with iOS 11
https://www.nomachine.com/TR06P08633

We’ll release a fix in the next update, if you want you can subscribe to be notified when it will be available.

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Trying to get text field “search desktop” on a connection screen. One in ten attempts was successful. Whenever I touches this text field, my keyboard arrives in a split second and hides.

ios 11.3 (15E216) at iPhone 7

Hi rand, thank you for the report. Do you’ve the same issue in portrait and landscape? Could you please verify if opening the keyboard is difficult also in another edit, like the one in Preferences => Transfers => Disallow files bigger than?
Thanks.

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Hi raphCode. I’m very sorry for the long delay, we had to investigate, implement proof of concepts etc etc… It took a while. 🙂
In the end we’ve considered the implementation of this Feature Request:

Adding the edge scrolling method for navigating the viewport
https://www.nomachine.com/FR05P03612

It’s not exactly what you have proposed, but it’s the closest solution we can implement on all supported platforms.

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Hi.
As you certainly know Cloud Server 6.x offers different features compared to version 5.x. Just for reference this is the link to a document explaining main differences:

NoMachine v. 6 and product offering
https://www.nomachine.com/FR06O03427

We’re aware of the different information shown in the list of servers compared to the list of nodes, and we’re already at work to find a way to offer a proper alternative.

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Hi.
When starting NoMachine the window will have the same state it was using when it was previously closed. If it’s not like that, and the previous window state was not fullscreen, then we may need to investigate what is happening in your case.
By the way you can leave the fullscreen mode any time by clicking the small fullscreen icon below, just under the list of connections. If you don’t see that icon then you may be using an old NoMachine version.

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Your dream may come true actually! 🙂 It’s pretty annoying that you can’t change those icons, so we are elaborating a solution that will allow to change the connection icon, and we’re studying how to reflect the change also in the file managers of operating systems supported by NoMachine (this is a quite complex topic, as you can imagine).

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Hi. Your proposal would be technically easy to implement, but those icons are very important to identify each item, so for consistency reasons it would not be a good idea to allow to customize them. Furthermore that list will be soon expanded to include more items, so it’ll be even more important to keep it easy and clear! 🙂

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Hi.
The problem occurs with Beta and Dev channels, we’ve reproduced it as well and it seems other apps are also affected (confirmed on Chromebook help forums). We’ll keep checking new Beta releases, in the meanwhile I’d suggest to move to ChromeOS stable.

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Hi. Your connection file includes all values needed to automatically connect to a running session, and I’ve confirmed it with some tests, so the problem must be somewhere else. Please check the following:

• The routine looking for a session to reconnect checks also some user defined parameters, like the name of the connection. You may try to rename the connection to verify if a shorter or different name helps.
• Automatic reconnection can be disabled in server configuration. If you can access the file server.cfg, verify that the key ConnectPolicy is including the value autoconnect=1. If you can’t access server configuration, verify the file ‘connection’ in client side logs and search for the text autoconnect yes.

If nothing helps, please send to our mail address a set of client logs.

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Thank you very much for sharing this information. 🙂

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Hi. Would you like to share your NXS file, so we can check how it is configured and run a few tests? You can send it to forum[at]nomachine[dot]com. I’d suggest to delete the following fields for security reasons:

<option key="Server host" value="" />
<option key="User" value="" />
<option key="Auth" value="EMPTY_PASSWORD" />

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Hi Jeff. If you’ve multiple monitors on the server you can select the one you want to see, but if you’ve multiple monitors connected to Chromebook and you want to spread the fullscreen over all monitors, you can’t do it because the Android application doesn’t support that feature.

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Hi. Would you like to help us to debug the issue? So far all our attempts to retrieve more data were unsuccessful, but your big environment gives me hope. 🙂 If you agree, contact us at forum[at]nomachine[dot]com, we’ll follow up with details. Thank you.

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Hi.
How do you use modifiers with the pencil? For example, do you press a modifier while drawing with the pencil (emulating the mouse) for a specific action on Blender? Support for hardware keyboard on iOS is limited and cannot offer the same experience of a keyboard on macOS, but we would appreciate to have a few more details in order to verify if we can find a workaround or a specific solution for your case. Thanks.

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