Fullscreen problem with VNC

I was using VNC to control a second MAC being used as a Time Machine and went into fullscreen mode. However I could not get back out of fullscreen and had to shut down the connected MAC. Does anyone have a fix?

Mac mini, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 1, 2020 5:28 AM

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Rudegar

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Aug 1, 2020 6:26 AM in response to whatdoIneedanalaisfor

in the case of most fullscreen apps moving the cursor to the top of the screen will display the dialog for close, and so forth

also VNC is a protocol so there are many implementations of both client and server side so if your client is not to your liking you can try some of the other vnc clients

https://www.google.com/search?q=vnc+clients+mac&oq=vnc+clients+mac&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l6.2326j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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