VNC on PowerPC?

2002-06-21 Thread Tim Waugh
Has anyone on this list had any luck with VNC on PowerPC? Client or server.. Tim. */ [demime 0.99c.8 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Essential RPM packages for RH7.3

2002-08-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:45:19PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: My questions are 1) Are they the most up-to-date version These packages contain a recent version of TightVNC, albeit not the latest release. 2) Is a) above the client which is the same as viewer in another name Yes, the 'vnc'

Re: Automating VNC Startup on a Red Hat 7.3 box

2002-12-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:15:27PM -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there, I tried automating the startup of VNC on my Linux box by modifying the /etc/rc.local file with the following entries: su kaplan /usr/bin/vncserver :2 su salee /usr/bin/vncserver :3 You could consider using

Re: Automating VNC Startup on a Red Hat 7.3 box

2002-12-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:43:43PM -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Thanks for your reply. Could you please elaborate? Thanks. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-boot-init-shutdown-sysconfig.html#S3-BOOT-INIT-SHUTDOWN-VNCSERVERS Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed

Re: VNC problems with Red Hat Linux 8

2002-12-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:19:58PM -0400, Dave Crabbe wrote: I have a problem installing VNC on Red Hat 8 and wonder if anyone has time to comment. Have you checked that your firewall settings are not preventing the connection you want? Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type

Re: Problems...

2003-01-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:50:59PM +0100, ...::: Attilio :::... wrote: 2) i started vncserver that require the password and edited the files /root/.vnc/xstartup as follow #!bin/bash $HOME/.Xresources exec gnome-session Why did you find this step necessary? The default xstartup file looks

Re: backdoor?

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:52:28PM -0500, Ted Toporkov wrote: is anyone aware of a backdoor in realvnc? i believe my vnc server was breached, but im not sure why or how. There is no backdoor, as you can verify yourself (check the source code). But the fact that there is very little

Re: VNC 4.0 Beta 3

2003-07-31 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:07:37PM +0100, James Weatherall wrote: RealVNC is pleased to announce the first public beta release of VNC 4.0. This is great news! Do you have an idea of when a final VNC 4.0 release might happen? Thanks, Tim. .. off to beta test */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an

Re: VNC 4.0 Beta 3

2003-08-01 Thread Tim Waugh
I needed this patch to compile VNC 4.0 Beta 3 on some platforms. Tim. */ --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/Xregion/Makefile.in.fPIC 2003-03-31 16:07:29.0 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/Xregion/Makefile.in 2003-08-01 10:35:14.0 +0100 @@ -12,4 +12,5 @@ $(AR) $(library) $(OBJS)

Re: VNC 4.0b3 and RHL 9

2003-08-01 Thread Tim Waugh
I'm also seeing the BadValue errors when trying to start clients. Xvfb from the same build tree is fine. Here is the xdpyinfo output for the Xvnc display: name of display::3.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number:4030 XFree86

Re: VNC 4.0b3 and RHL 9

2003-08-01 Thread Tim Waugh
Incidentally, if I set my xstartup to run GNOME, I get this error in the output: (gnome-session:9690): Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER support is present, but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support. In other words, it is buggy. Could that be relevant? Tim. */ [demime

Re: VNC 4.0b3 and RHL 9

2003-08-01 Thread Tim Waugh
Just to have all the information in one email, here is what I tried tonight. The binaries were built unpacking XFree86-4.3.0.tar.gz over the xc directory from vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc.tar.gz, and then applying xc.patch with 'patch -p0 -i xc.patch'. Here is the %build part of the spec file I used:

Re: VNC 4.0b3 and RHL 9

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Waugh
Think I've got a bit further with the BadValue 0x20 problem. Here is a backtrace from the XCreatePixmap function that causes the trouble ('finish' in gdb gives the X error message): #0 0x0013ed66 in XCreatePixmap () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 #1 0x0024b2c0 in XcursorImageLoadCursor ()

4.0b3 and RENDER

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Waugh
So far to get 4.0b3 to work for me on a rawhide-based Red Hat Linux machine I've needed to apply the patch I posted recently to enable -fPIC on some architectures, and disable RENDER in Xvnc using this patch: --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/Xvnc/xvnc.cc.norender 2003-07-23

4.0b3 vs xvncviewer 3.3.7?

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Waugh
Is anyone using Xvnc from the 4.0b3 distribution and xvncviewer 3.3.7? I've had a report that there is an interoperability problem there, with connections frequently dropping. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

4.0b3 problem: updates only on mouse movement

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Waugh
I'm viewing an Xvnc 4.0b3 server on Red Hat Linux, and it has been running since last night. It was fine until earlier ths morning, when (after disconnecting the viewer and reconnecting it) it suddenly started only updating the screen when I move the mouse. I'm typing this email through the

4.0b3 and -log

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Waugh
Having just tried to use vncviewer's -log parameter just now, I can vouch for the fact that some documentation would have been nice. :-) I'm still not sure I understand how it works, but vncviewer -log '*:stderr:0' ... seems to turn off most messages. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an

Re: TR: Xvnc, Mandrake 9.1 and KDE 3.1

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:01:23PM +0200, vincent DEDIEU wrote: In fact, the problem seems to be due to both Xfree4 and KDE3.1. The new KDE 3.1 environment (display manager and desktop) uses new functions of Xfree4 (maybe such as RENDER and GLX, but I'am not an expert). Because these

4.0b3: vncpasswd option parsing broken

2003-08-15 Thread Tim Waugh
Here is a patch to fix parsing of 'vncpasswd -q /tmp/vncpasswd': --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/vncpasswd/vncpasswd.cxx.vncpasswdq2003-08-15 09:11:46.0 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/vncpasswd/vncpasswd.cxx 2003-08-15 09:13:45.0 +0100 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ for (int i = 1; i argc;

Re: 4.0b3: vncviewer reading password from tty

2003-08-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 02:08:05PM +0200, Beerse, Corni wrote: I don't think vnc should do it. vnc provides proper, decent and relatively save ways to pass the password phrase without having to type the password. The objection I hear is: Vncpasswd stores the password in a file. It's encoded,

4.0b3 and vncconfig with vnc.so

2003-08-15 Thread Tim Waugh
Is it meant to be possible to dynamically change RFB and HTTP port numbers for the VNC extension module loaded into a real X server? I can't seem to get a) the RFB port number to change, or b) the HTTP listener to start at all Incidentally, 'vncconfig -get rfbport' gives '0' in this case. Is

Re: 4.0b3 vs xvncviewer 3.3.7?

2003-08-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:13:45PM -0400, William Hooper wrote: William Hooper said: Tim Waugh said: Is anyone using Xvnc from the 4.0b3 distribution and xvncviewer 3.3.7? I've had a report that there is an interoperability problem there, with connections frequently dropping. Tim

4.0b3: another compilation fix

2003-08-18 Thread Tim Waugh
Some definitions of assert seem to want to coerce the parameter to 'long int'. Here are some fixes to avoid compilation errors. Tim. */ --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/rfb/Region.cxx.compile2003-08-18 12:25:40.0 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/rfb/Region.cxx2003-08-18 12:26:08.0 +0100

4.0b3: idle timeout

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Waugh
I've been seeing the idle timeout trigger after only a few seconds. I'm not sure that 15s is long enough for an authentication phase on a slow link. It isn't really clear to me what the purpose of IdleTimeout is actually. Is it for cleaning up stale connections? Wouldn't a keepalive method work

[patch] 4.0b3: ssh tunnelling support

2003-08-22 Thread Tim Waugh
Following a request I had for '-via' handling in RealVNC, here is the patch I used to make it happen. Tim. */ --- vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/network/TcpSocket.cxx.via 2003-08-21 17:09:29.0 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b3-unixsrc/network/TcpSocket.cxx 2003-08-21 18:24:29.0 +0100 @@ -49,6 +49,29 @@

Re: GNOME

2003-08-28 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:44:57PM -0600, Eric Walker wrote: I have my setup working on my linux box at work but some of the guys at work can't get there setup to work. I am using gnome-session as my window manager and it displays my entire session through vnc, but when others at my job try

Re: Vnc start apps

2003-08-31 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:44:21PM -0700, Brock Palen wrote: I woudl like to make VNC start all the gome items like a normal log in on red hat 8.0 so the pannel background and all them are there. Waht do i put in the xstartup file int /home/user_name/.vnc/xstartup to make them all start.

Re: Question about video capture

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:33:14AM -0400, Michael Meagher wrote: Dear List, Is it possible to use the VNC software to record into some kind of video file (mpg?) what someone does on a computer for a period of time, say 50 mins? Although it isn't really a video format, you can capture the

Re: Recording a VNC session

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:28:48AM -0500, Jim Rowland wrote: Has anyone recorded a VNC session for playback say in training? Anyone know of a good third party software that captures a VNC session as a MPEG or an AVI? This comes up fairly frequently on the mailing list:

4.0b3: timeout handling

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Waugh
I think that some of the timeout handling in VNC is quite sensitive to having things like NTP running. I have seen the idle timeout trigger after only a few seconds' use, and have also seen the deferUpdate timeout completely fail to trigger. My theory is that NTP is stepping the time back when

Re: 4.0b3: timeout handling

2003-09-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:45:43PM +0100, Tristan Richardson wrote: I don't see how the original code could go wrong even if time went backwards, unless there's some combination of signed/unsigned 32/64-bit time_t/int that produces a weird value. It would cause a timeout if time went

Re: Sending CTRL ALT Delete non - interactively to locked workstations

2003-09-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:55:10AM -0400, Mark Penkower wrote: Have a program crawl around the network and detect which workstations are locked - Then send CTRL ALT Delete to those workstations, along with the appropriate passwords. Can this software do this? You can use rfbplaymacro to

Re: VNC 4.0 Beta 4

2003-09-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 07:57:06PM +0100, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote: RealVNC is pleased to announce a new public beta release of VNC 4.0. VNC 4.0 is a complete redesign of the VNC system, but maintains backwards compatibility with the old VNC 3 releases. Works well for me. I still

Re: VNC RENDERING

2003-09-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:23:51PM -0400, William Hooper wrote: The underlying version has changed in the RealVNC 4 Beta, so you probably want to give that a try. I know there were some issues with Render support, but I'm not sure what. Even in the beta of 4.0, RealVNC does not support

Re: Linux vncserver Windows vncviewer

2003-09-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:49:32PM -0400, [FS] xMiles Tegx wrote: I am unable to get my Windows XP vncviewer to connect to my Linux RedHat 9.0 vncserver, but if I run it the other way around I am fine. I can't seem to find anything that I am doing wrong and the server seems to be working on

Re: Xvnc on ia64

2003-09-14 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:04:22PM +0200, Peter Astrand wrote: Has anyone successfully built Xvnc on ia64-redhat-linux (Red Hat 2.1AS)? I've been able to compile it, but when trying to run, the server says: The 4.0beta4 version works for me. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of

Re: Updates only on mouse movement

2003-09-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:02:58AM -0700, Bill Nassauer wrote: When connecting to any one of these servers, and consequently presented with the xdm login screen, everything is normal and we are able to log in normally. About 90% of the time, logging the user out of his/her Linux session

[patch] Xvnc 4.0b4 segfault

2003-09-19 Thread Tim Waugh
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104702 I have seen a divide-by-zero crash a couple of times, here: #0 0x0817685d in rfb::RawEncoder::writeRect(rfb::Rect const, rfb::ImageGetter*) (this=0x95a3a08, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ig=0x91db5b4) at RawEncoder.cxx:47 47int nRows =

Re: vnc4 on severn

2003-10-03 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:29:15AM -0400, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: However, something has broken. No, just the defaults have changed. server = /usr/bin/Xvnc server_args = :2 -inetd -query 192.168.0.3 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -once -fp unix/:7100 You

fullscreen vncviewer and xscreensaver

2003-10-08 Thread Tim Waugh
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106552 This is with 4.0b4, the viewer running on Red Hat Linux. When using vncviewer full-screen and the xscreensaver on the client locks the screen, you cannot unlock xscreensaver. It seems like vncviewer intercepts the pressed keys.

Re: can't get vncserver running

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:08:00AM -0400, Liaw, Andy wrote: Thanks for the reply. However, I think the problem is worse than that. If I simply run Xvnc, I actually get segmentation fault. I suspect the problem is simply faulty/non-working binary for the AMD64 (x86_64) architecture. I

Re: Feature discussion

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:22:52PM +0200, Ivar Snaaijer (chello) wrote: There has to be some timing in the stream, there probably is room somewhere for a 2byte 'seconds' counter. the idea is to just count seconds in between 'triggers' and recount them when you play the file. (set your

Re: [patch] Xvnc 4.0b4 segfault

2003-11-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:09:30PM +0100, Tim Waugh wrote: void SMsgWriter::writeRect(const Rect r, ImageGetter* ig) { - writeRect(r, cp-currentEncoding(), ig); + if (r.width() r.height()) +writeRect(r, cp-currentEncoding(), ig); } Unfortunately, while this does fix a segfault

Re: [patch] Xvnc 4.0b4 segfault

2003-11-08 Thread Tim Waugh
Here is the patch I am testing now: --- vnc-4.0b4-unixsrc/rfb/SMsgWriter.cxx.crash 2003-06-27 14:10:14.0 +0100 +++ vnc-4.0b4-unixsrc/rfb/SMsgWriter.cxx2003-11-08 13:54:12.0 + @@ -92,9 +92,19 @@ void SMsgWriter::writeFramebufferUpdate(const UpdateInfo ui,

Re: Xvnc 4.0b4 segfault

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 01:11:49PM -, James Weatherall wrote: A bug in the Region class has been discovered and will be patched in the next release. It seems a likely candidate to explain the rectangle oddities you've encountered. Excellent! Do you have any more information about the

Re: VNC viewer freeze: Server - Fedora Linux Core 1 (gnome); Client - Windows XP; type a character into a console and it freezes

2003-11-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:22:01PM -, James R Bamford wrote: Upon connection everything is ok.. moving around the desktop is fine.. pulling windows around is all fine.. I was quite excited as it looked perfect and looks to have saved me from trying Xserving with cygwin.. bring up the

Re: VNC viewer freeze: Server - Fedora Linux Core 1 (gnome); Client - Windows XP; type a character into a console and it freezes

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:45:56AM -, James R Bamford wrote: Thanks for the info Tim... I looked through your bugzilla bug linked in your earlier posts, i alterned that /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and rebooted but it didn't work.. VNCSERVERS=1:jim for loggin in as jim.. that look ok?

Re: VNC viewer freeze: Server - Fedora Linux Core 1 (gnome); Client - Windows XP; type a character into a console and it freezes

2003-11-10 Thread Tim Waugh
Comment #9 in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107455 has a pointer to an experimental package which I hope contains a fix for this issue. Let me know (via bugzilla preferably) if it works for you. Thanks, Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type

Re: VNC Server not running in RHL 9

2003-11-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:11:16AM -0800, eenmanszaak wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me why this is not running automatically, even though while starting up it shows vncserver started successfully. There is no problem when i run it from root manually. You didn't put anything in

Re: Anti-aliased fonts and RH 9?

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:51:27PM -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: Does anybody know if the new 4.0x version of RealVNC works properly in this situation? The last time I checked it out, the beta was having some problems and messages on the list seemed to suggest that the move to 4.0beta was

Re: Anti-aliased fonts and RH 9?

2003-11-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:03:26AM -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: How about an up to date RH 9? No, very unlikely. Why not just upgrade to Fedora Core 1? Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ___ VNC-List

Re: vncviewer -name, -title

2003-12-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:06:17PM -0700, Todd Allen wrote: But the TightVNC version of vncviewer supported both -name and -title options to control the resource/window name and window title, respectively. Those options are absent from the RealVNC 4.0b4 version. I used those options to

Re: How to programmatically send keystroke to specific window inside vnc

2004-01-06 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:10:56AM -0800, Ling Tang wrote: Could anyone give me any idea how to programmatcially - detect the active window inside vnc viewer? - send keystroke to a specific window inside vnc viewer? You can only send keystrokes to the VNC server (and there are several free

Beta 5? 4.0 final?

2004-01-15 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi, Could someone from RealVNC give us an idea of the schedule for VNC 4.0 final? I'm sure I'm not alone in being eager to see it released! :-) Thanks, Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ___ VNC-List

Re: Xvnc as a X-server (optionally replacing the console Xserver)

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:48:42AM -0500, Bennett, Chris wrote: Thanks for that, been looking for the -dontdisconnect option, which is undocumented! I configured an Xvnc as the Xserver by doing the following :- Instead of -dontdisconnect you should use -DisconnectClients=false for version

[patch] RealVNC 4.0b4 (Xvnc): fix vncconfig -connect

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Waugh
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114063 While attempting a reverse connection from the VNC module in the XFree86 server to the vncviewer client, it is very likely that a SIGALRM will interrupt the connect() system call. Unfortunately, the existing code treats this as a

[patch] RealVNC 4.0b4 compilation fixes

2004-02-04 Thread Tim Waugh
The use of macros for min() and max() interferes with STL, which defines std::min and std::max in algorithm. Here is a patch to use the STL-provided definitions instead. This prevents several errors when compiling with the 3.4 branch of GCC (in CVS). Tim. */ ---

Re: [Fwd: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:41:48PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Anyway, if I point OpenOffice to an Xfree86 Xserver, I get anti-aliased fonts, but not with the vncserver as the Xserver. I see this too, and I assume it's because RealVNC doesn't support RENDER, or one of the other extensions present

Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:40:09AM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: what about RealVNC 4.0 beta, would it support the Render extention? It doesn't. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ___ VNC-List mailing list

Re: [vnc-list] Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:32:33PM +0100, Wout Mertens wrote: RealVNC 4.0beta doesn't have RENDER because they use the wrong virtual frame buffer library (cfb). They need to rewrite some code in order to use the correct one (fb). I asked them a few times, they don't want to. Because it's too

Re: [Fwd: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:25:15AM +0100, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Sorry if my question seems silly, but I thought VNC server just copies what's drawn on the screen. How could the support of RENDER or anything else could affect font anti-aliasing? Mike is using the stand-alone Xvnc server I

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice vncserver]

2004-02-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 02:58:09PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: Could one of these libraries be providing the anti-aliasing instead of depending on GLX/Render in the X server? Package: mozilla-firebird Version: 0.7-7 Depends: fontconfig, The fontconfig library does client-side text rendering.

Re: VNC keypress client?

2004-03-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:34:43PM +, Dan Sloane wrote: Does anyone know of, or have written a VNC keypress-only Win32 client? We have many museum-style interactives based on Director that use keyboard shortcuts to control setup, burn-in, etc. etc. Currently we use VNC Viewer (or

[patch] Xvnc 4.0b4 compilation problem

2004-03-24 Thread Tim Waugh
vnc-4.0b4-unixsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/vnc/XserverDesktop.cc contains a static function 'printRegion' which tries to use pScreen, a class member variable. Since the function isn't a method of the class, compilation fails. The function isn't actually used anywhere, and so can be removed. Using

VNC progress report?

2004-03-24 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi all, It's been six months since 4.0beta4 was released, and there must have been many bugs fixed in that time. Could one of the RealVNC folks please give us an update on how work on 4.0 is going? What bugs need fixing before 4.0beta5 can be released? What new features need testing? Let us

XOrg / XFree86 4.4.0?

2004-03-31 Thread Tim Waugh
Has anyone tried compiling RealVNC 4.0beta4 against XOrg (xorg.freedesktop.org) or XFree86 4.4.x? I'm having trouble getting it to compile against the xorg-x11 package in Fedora devel. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

Re: imposing security on users

2004-04-15 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:22:04AM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: We may have discussed this before, but that seems to be true of most issues on this list! I want to be able to run Xvnc on a Linux box and allow users to connect to it, but I would prefer that they use SSH tunnels from outside the

Re: VNC server installed with RHL8

2004-05-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:08:25AM -0700, Carlos Sunden wrote: Hello All! Did an installation of RHL8 installed the vnc-3.3.3r2-39 version that came with CD. Now, I know this is rather old but, shouldn't vncserver had been installed set to run at startup? I expected to just type

Re: VNC server installed with RHL8

2004-05-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:49:57AM -0700, Carlos Sunden wrote: I recalled selecting vnc-server at the RHL8 install. The rpm -q vnc returns: vnc-3.3.3r2-39 'vnc' is the viewer. What does 'rpm -q vnc-server' say? Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type

Re: VNC server installed with RHL8

2004-05-19 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:28:27AM -0700, Carlos Sunden wrote: Does RHL8 has the vnc-server option to be installed at installation time ? Yes. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] ___ VNC-List mailing

Re: VNC 4.0 Beta 5

2004-05-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:19:54PM +0100, James Weatherall wrote: RealVNC is pleased to announce a new public beta release of VNC 4.0. VNC 4.0 is a complete redesign of the VNC system, but maintains backwards compatibility with the old VNC 3 releases. Hi, It's great that beta 5 is finally

X.org foundation X11R6.7.0

2004-05-20 Thread Tim Waugh
Has anyone had luck getting RealVNC to work with XOrg?: http://freedesktop.org/XOrg I've managed to get an Xvnc binary using the 4.0b5 source, but it crashes while starting: #0 0x0816660d in RegionHelper (this=0xfef2fdc0, pScreen_=0x93fba60, pRegion=0xfef2fe90) at RegionHelper.h:39 39

[patch] X.org foundation X11R6.7.0

2004-05-26 Thread Tim Waugh
I've finally figured out how to get VNC 4.0beta5 to build against xorg-x11 6.7.0. Here is the patch I needed. Tim. */ --- vnc-4.0b4-unixsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/Imakefile.xorg2004-03-04 17:47:16.0 + +++ vnc-4.0b4-unixsrc/xc/programs/Xserver/Imakefile 2004-03-22

[patch] 4.0b5-unixsrc: cursor handling fix

2004-05-28 Thread Tim Waugh
When a cursor's hotspot does not lie on a visible pixel and so ends upD outside the bounding rectangle for it, the cursor is cropped and the hotspot may end up being changed incorrectly. In particular, if the hotspot is to the left or above the first busy pixel, the transmitted hotspot ends up

Re: VNC 4.0b4 on Fedora Core s Error: couldn't find suitable pixmap format

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:24:17PM +0930, Brenton Frahn wrote: Wondering if anybody could shed some light Have Fedora Core 2 running and installed VNC viewer for X version 4.0b4 but after entering password for the session it comes back and gives the error couldn't find suitable pixmap format

Re: VNC 4.0b4 on Fedora Core s Error: couldn't find suitable pix map format

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:20:32PM +0930, Brenton Frahn wrote: Thanks Tim. Changed from using Millions of Colours to Thousands of Colours it now works. Didn't expect it to be that picky as to my bit colour depth. Oh Well. No, I didn't expect it to be either, but I've seen the same problem

Re: vncserver crashes on fedora core 2 (xorg)

2004-07-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:50:02AM -0400, John Rayburn wrote: We use vnc to peer program at our company. We are all running Fedora Core 2. The following is how we do this: vncserver -AlwaysShared -geometry 1600x1200 vncviewer 127.0.0.1:1 So I connect to my local vncserver and another

Re: vncserver crashes on fedora core 2 (xorg)

2004-07-02 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:20:28AM -0400, John Rayburn wrote: The Fedora Core 2 package doesn't work, and I tried the vnc-server-4.0-3 packages from the fedora development branch, and it continues to crash... Help! I don't find any logs indicating what the problem might be, but I may be

Re: F8 menu option on linux vnc veiwer

2004-07-02 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 05:21:33PM +0100, Babraa,H wrote: I am using VNC Veiwer for X version 4.04b on Linux to connect to a windows box After a undeterminable amount of time I loose the f8 menu option (used mainly for sending cntrl+alt+del) and have to restart my X service. Has anyone come

Re: x0rfbserver

2004-07-22 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:20:27PM +0100, HI - Cte. Santos de Campos wrote: Hi, Does anyone know where I can get x0rfbserver nowadays?? Use x0vncserver, which comes with RealVNC 4. Tim. */ [demime 0.99d.1 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

Re: PATCH: use fb instead of mfb+cfb

2004-08-25 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:33:00PM +0200, Kristian Hxgsberg wrote: I've been chasing a bug with vnc-4.0, where eclipse (3.0) crashes the server. [...] Now, I tried to debug cfb8line.c a bit, but that code is very hard to work with, e.g. almost one third of 1500 lines is cryptic C preprocessor

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-09-28 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:09:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually Tim, I had the same issue with the vncserver that *comes* with FC2. That is why I downloaded realvnc. The vnc servers appear to be the same. No, the VNC that comes with Fedora Core 2 does not fail with dynamic loader

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-09-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:11:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in the test update for VNC in FC2. I looked at the URL. How would I go about installing and configuring this stuff? Actually it's now a final update:

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-10-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:07:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tim, I updated vncserver, using up2date. I no longer get vncserver library errors, but I am now getting Xvnc library errors, on the same library as the vncserver erros I originally complained about. Apparently

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-10-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 06:07:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I updated vncserver, using up2date. I no longer get vncserver library errors, but I am now getting Xvnc library errors, on the same library as the vncserver erros I originally complained about. ..oh, library errors from

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-10-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:23:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I got... # type Xvnc Xvnc is hashed (/usr/local/bin/Xvnc) That's the one you'd installed by hand. Uninstall it. Tim. */ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

Re: vncserver issues on Fedora core 2

2004-10-04 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:11:11PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. How do I do that? I looked in the install script, and it's all just cp's. The old files weren't preserved. Can I reinstall the original Xvnc from source? Just remove /usr/local/bin/Xvnc. The correct one lives in

Re: eclipse problem

2004-10-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 04:17:03PM -0400, Ernest E Jessee wrote: Redhat bits are worse. They are labeled as beta. Crash occurred within seconds of starting eclipse/java session. The frequency of my last 2 notes should give you some indication of how bad the problem is. If you google

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-11 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:13:57PM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Hi, I have a problem with vncserver version 4 (from file tar.gz), when: #/usr/local/bin/vncserver You will require password to access your desktop. vncpasswd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-lib6.1-1.so.2

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:44:22PM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: Install the VNC package that comes with Fedora Core 2 (actually there is an update: use up2date to fetch it). .. I execute up2date but I don't find package rpm for VNC, perhaps I must install first the beta

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:22:48AM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: Yes. (Or run 'up2date vnc vnc-viewer' from the command line.) .. now I have retried up2date vnc-server and now I haven't error, therefore vnc-server is installed correctly but I have always same error (end

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:56:11AM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: Remove all the executables in /usr/local/bin/ that you don't want. (I'm sure this has been discussed before in the archive..) .. I have cancelled the files in /usr/local/bin/ but the result isn't not change

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:46:25PM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: Hmm. Show the error again. Xvnc: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open share d object file: No such file or directory That's *definitely* not coming from the FC2 update

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: I suggest 'type Xvnc' to see which binary you're running, and delete it. .. the result is /usr/bin/Xvnc, now I delete Xvnc but now when excute: #vncserver vncserver: couldn't find Xvnc on your path

Re: vnc 4 on fc2

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:29:41PM +0100, Salvatore Basso wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: I think you didn't install the FC2 vnc-server update. Run: up2date vnc-server .. no unfortunately I excute up2date vnc-server, in fact now: #up2date vnc-server .. The following packages you requested

Re: VNC on fedora core 2

2004-11-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:02:27PM +, Darren Goulston wrote: Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere

Re: VNC on fedora core 2 - now connecting but still errors

2004-11-24 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:17:04PM +, Darren Goulston wrote: ok i got it connecting now.. was my fault how stupid... had the server trusting eth1 instead of eth0 which the cable is plugged into.. lol.. anyways i connects with pwd but i still have the errors below and vnc is not looking

Re: Sending Keyboard Commands using a Script or Batch File

2004-12-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:54:58AM -0500, Bradley Beaver wrote: Hi. Is there a way to send keyboard commands to a computer using a script file or batch file? Yes, rfbplaymacro can do this. http://cyberelk.net/tim/rfbplaymacro/ Tim. */ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type

Re: Posting: Installing on Linux for an absolute newbie!

2005-01-05 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:27:50PM -, James May wrote: We are only used to using the KDE interface for our Red Hat Linux installed server for very simple tasks (literally just clock changes and the like), we certainly have no in-house experience for actual commands and the like. So could

Re: Control of a dos machine

2005-02-23 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:46:53PM -0500, Steve Bostedor wrote: In short, no, you can't do this with VNC. VNC currently only offers a way to control operating systems with a GUI. Is it the DOS box that is on the dialup connection? Have you looked into NetOp?

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