[ale] VNC viewers for linux

[David Corbin]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.


James Taylor wrote:

>I'm using the krfd client that is included with KDE3.x, and it's worked
>well for me.
>I can switch to and from fullscreen, scale the window size and when not
>scaled the scroll has worked when I needed it.
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>>>>dcorbin at machturtle.com 09/18/04 7:34 am >>> 
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>I'm fairly disappointed with the vnc viewer I've been using.  It's the
>one 
>that came with tighvnc, which I think is based on the original vnc
>package.  
>Here are my complaints: 
>1) there doesn't seem to be a way to switch between full screen and not 
>fullscreen (that I can find) 
>2) When I pop up the "F8 menu", there's no keyboard access. 
>3) switchting to full screen has known problems. 
>4) I often have 'scrolling problems' when the remote 'screen' is larger
>than 
>my local one. 
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>Now, I've been using rdesktop for some months to access a windows box 
>remotely.   As a client, it seems to work much better than VNC,
>suffering 
>only the fundamental problem that rdesktop only talks to Windows boxen. 
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>This leads me to ask the question, "are there other vnc viewers for
>linux that 
>do are better than the standard one?" 
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>VNC projects seem to be "scattered", is there a recommend place to
>discuss/ask 
>this that will get most of the VNC developer community?  I've got some
>other 
>ideas/features I'd like to propose.... 
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>David 
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