[ale] VNC viewers for linux
David Corbin
dcorbin at enttek.com
Sun Sep 19 11:47:32 EDT 2004
I cannot find such in KDE 3.2 - is it new for 3.3?
David
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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>James Taylor
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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
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>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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