[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] VNC Viewer maemo port now available

[From: Aaron Levinson]

Regarding the problems people have been encountering:

1.  I only tested with RealVNC's vncserver (on both Windows and Linux).  
Until I address the issues, I suggest using this server.  It may already 
be installed on your Linux system (as vncserver).
2.  The port is based on a very old (from 2002) port of VNC for GNOME 
named gnome-vnc.  It only advanced to the 0.1 stage.  According to an 
announcement from the author, the port did not support hextile encoding, 
so this is also true of the port I did.  The encoding type can generally 
be configured in the settings for the particular VNC server flavor.
3.  I took a look at some of the source from TightVNC, which has been
updated more recently, and it looks like it might be a good fit for the
underlying VNC protocol code in my port, which should address various
issues that have come up.

Aaron

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Eduardo Bellido Bellido wrote:

> El jue, 29-12-2005 a las 10:03 +0100, Pedro Ayala escribió:
> > hello Aaron,
> > 
> > I've tried to use your vnccliient from the nokia to my ubuntu but i
> > have this error:
> > 
> > ~ $ vncviewer 192.168.0.104
> > vncviewer[788]: GLIB MESSAGE default - Desk Name='LibVNCServer'
> > vncviewer[788]: GLIB MESSAGE default - Desk Size=1280x1024, Depth=24
> > vncviewer[788]: GLIB MESSAGE default - Sending request for full update
> > vncviewer[788]: GLIB ERROR ** default - file rfb.c: line 679
> > (getNextRectangle): should not be reached
> > aborting...
> > Aborted
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have the same problem.
> 
> I use Debian SID/Unstable with the GNOME VNC Server (vino).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > thanks you for your vnc
> > 
> > 2005/12/29, Aaron Levinson <alevinsn at aracnet.com>:
> > > I'm pleased to announce the first version of a VNC Viewer maemo port.
> > > Some other developers have announced ports of VNC in the past, but these
> > > were strictly builds of the RealVNC vncviewer client and were not
> > > GTK/maemo software applications.  As such, they lacked certain GTK/maemo
> > > amenities, the biggest being no text input methods.
> > >
> > > This new port is a true GTK/maemo port that basically provides most of the
> > > support that one might expect from a maemo-ized VNC viewer.  I'm still
> > > working on adding some features, and there certainly is room for
> > > optimizations, but I'm pretty happy with the way it has turned out so far.
> > >
> > > It's available at http://www.aracnet.com/~alevinsn/vncviewer_0.1_arm.deb .
> > >
> > > Here's some brief documentation:
> > > -- Press the Select/Confirm button to turn on and off the text input
> > > method window (just like in xterm).
> > > -- Use the Zoom out (-) button for middle mouse button clicks.
> > > -- Use the Zoom in (+) button for right mouse button clicks.
> > > -- Use the Cancel/Close button to send an Esc key.
> > > -- The other hardware buttons operate similar to how they operate in
> > > xterm.
> > > -- Turn on/off the toolbar from the View menu.
> > > -- It is possible to double-click, but it might require a little
> > > practice/multiple attempts.
> > >
> > > I'm planning on writing one or more e-mails concerning my porting
> > > experiences.  Hopefully, the information in these e-mails will be useful
> > > to some.  I'll also be making the source code available once I clean it up
> > > a bit more.
> > >
> > > Aaron Levinson
> > >
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