[ale] VNC viewers for linux

[David Corbin]

On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:08 am, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> > Now, I've been using rdesktop for some months to access a windows box
> > remotely.   As a client, it seems to work much better than
> > VNC, suffering
> > only the fundamental problem that rdesktop only talks to
> > Windows boxen.
> >
> > This leads me to ask the question, "are there other vnc
> > viewers for linux that do are better than the standard one?"
>
> There may be band-aids out there, but as a whole, most of the problems are
> just part of life with VNC. Microsoft RDP and Citrix ICA are just better.
> I've yet to find anything that I consider acceptable in the VNC world. It
> will do in a pinch, but I try to plan around it. I've gone so far as to
> install X on windows and access it via RDP or ICA and then use it to access
> the *nix box. I'm working now on publishing a gnome 1.4 desktop (cygnome)
> as a windows application from a Citrix server, just to grant myself the
> same level of access to my linux systems that I enjoy on my windows
> systems.

But, with one exception (screen dimensions), I think that the protocol is not 
part of the problem.  It's just client implementation.

>
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> Jonathan
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