Bug#179769: RFP: xf4vnc -- VNC server integration into the XFree86 server
Hi
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:37:13PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>
> > > * License : GPL
> > > Description : VNC server integration into the XFree86 server
>
> > I have been thinking about packaging this but I have not yet got the
> > time. I also know that realvnc (vnc package) upstream is working on
> > something very similar.
>
> Cool stuff. Sadly, it needs modifications to the XFree86 drivers.
> This can make the packaging a bit troublesome (at least in the sense
> that it leads to a "this or that" situation, not just some add-on).
> And I must be blind, because I don't see source. There's the CVS of
> course.
Well last time I looked at it it was just source in CVS (and therefore
I did not try it).
> The other downside for me is that this doesn't support OpenGL (which
> x0rfb does, for example).
I'm working on the x0rfb packages but I need some things to be fixed
in other packages because of the not so nice g++ transition we are up
to right now...
> Ola, can you give me a pointer to this "very similar" something that
> the realvnc folks are working on. I skimmed the mailing list
No unfortunatly I can not. I have just heard it from the upstream
developers directly. I do not know how public that is. They are
working on a X4 version of vnc so they will not add my patches to
the mainline versions.
> (vnc-list) and I couldn't spot it. The best thing I could find was a
> reference to starting an Xvnc server and running a full screen viewer
> on :0 -- which is silly.
The vnc list is a users list, not a developers list. :)
Regards,
// Ola
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Marcelo
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