greyscale Screen Sharing in Leopard - shish1

I have the same gripe about not being able to use greyscale in CotVNC, but here is a way to get Screen Sharing in Leopard to use greyscale:

To change this setting manually, open up the Terminal and type in the following command:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing controlObserveQuality 2

This changes the controlObserveQuality setting within this plist file: “~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist” file to 2, which is grey scale. To change it to a different resolution, substitute the number 2 with one of the following numbers:

1 = black and white
2 = grey scale
3 = 8 bit color
4 = 16 bit color
5 = full color

However, when you've connected and you're all happy that you have greyscale, if you then choose Adaptive Quality from the View menu in Screen Sharing, this will set the default back to 3 (8 bit color), and you'll have to run the Terminal command or edit the .plist file again - so, just leave it when you initially set it and all will be well!

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Tuesday, December 11 2007 @ 04:15 PM PST