rudholm wrote:
...
No, null-event alerting/polling is simply not part of how RFB (the
protocol VNC uses) works, it's not a question of whose implementation
we're considering.
New feature? Not at all. VNC runs independent of any video hardware
on the server, always has. vncserver requires no X11 server because it
*is* an X11 server. vncserver doesn't even know if any local display
hardware exists. In Windows this wasn't the case because that OS
traditionally only supported one user context at a time so when you
shared a session with VNC, you were sharing *the* desktop (which,
obviously, was tied to a video card). But under unix-like OSes, this
has never been the case. In fact, getting VNC to share the contents of
screen 0 (i.e. the local video display) is something people have been
trying to work out in recent years. Eventually, RFB will be
implemented by hardware-based X11 servers as simply another modular
extension.
ok.
What were the particulars of the VNC setup(s) you experimented with?
I'm curious because RFB is far more lightweight than X11 so performance
is generally better over less-than-robust links. That was part of the
whole point of VNC. So if you're seeing other results, I'm curious
what the specifics were. I'm also curious because your use of
vncserver seemed to be tied to the physical display somehow.
Mandrake Linux client, Windows 98 and XP servers. This was before
rdesktop existed as an option, which is what I use now in these
situations. I haven't used Xvnc server more than once or twice, because
there's really no need.
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