[Tfug] Anyone know of a decent X VNC Client?

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Jeremy D Rogers wrote:

>Yeah, I was gonna mention xtightvncviewer..
>Also, I thought I'd mention that I run it in its own xserver so I can
>run it fullscreen and then if things go bad, I just ctl+alt+backspace
>and kill the whole xserver. I also tunnel it through ssh, and on the
>windows machine I restrict connection only from local. That way, I get
>added security and I can use ssh compression.
>JDR
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>On 8/9/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>So, I just found that xtightvncviewer has a popup menu if you hit F8,
>>allowing you to refresh and toggle fullscreen mode.  That helps a
>>little.
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>>-- Chad
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>>On 8/4/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>By "decent", I mean one with buttons on the GUI, for stuff like
>>>ctrl-alt-delete, force refresh, 256-color mode, maybe a startup dialog
>>>that remembers recently used hosts, ports, and options.
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I'll suggest trying `krdc`,  This is KDE Remote Desktop Connection.  It 
has buttons to toggle full screen and to send any key sequence.

>>>I've tried realvnc, and tightvnc, but they are so lame compared to
>>>UltraVNC on windows (which has that cool autoscale feature and the
>>>video driver hook that makes it almost as fast as Remote Desktop).
>>>
>>>Yes, I know I could figure out the command line options and write
>>>startup scripts, but I connect to a lot of different systems via VNC,
>>>and I just really don't get off on spending my time writing scripts or
>>>learning keybindings when I can just click a button to do the same
>>>thing on the windows version.  I already have to write enough scripts
>>>and learn enough keybindings for my other work!
>>>
>>>-- Chad
>>>
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