Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Yes other distributions has solved this problem by simply switching to other alternative vnc implementations.
Just a bit more feedback on this -Redhat, and OpenSolaris, amongst others are switching from RealVNC to tigervnc, as RealVNC seem to have dropped their opensource edition. tigervnc requires source from the Debian xserver-xorg-core package to build Xvnc and libvnc.so - in order to do so, it ships a patch (autoreconf is required).
This means that building on Debian will either have to try and manually track xserver-xorg-core, or integrate with it (e.g. as a patch), both approaches will be a bit troublesome..
I looked at compiling tigervnc on Lenny or Squeeze (currently xserver-xorg-core 1.4.2), but tigervnc only currently only ships with support for xorg 1.5.x and 1.6.x (so it should be OK for sid, but unfortunately I don't have time to try this now, as my main workstation - which is the one I need libvnc.so on - runs squeeze).
I suppose it'd be nice to have the Xvnc server, and libvnc.so as part of upstream xorg, but I've no idea if that has even been considered by the parties involved!
In the meantime, the vnc server extension is only available on lenny with the use of the commercial "RealVNC Enterprise" software.
HTH, Tim.