Indeed, useful information!!
However, from my vantage point - end user.. it is more important to have the
"little" features.. :)
Like, the RECONNECT option, in TigerVNC 1.0.1 if a connection is broken for any
reason, It automatically asks to reconnect, and simply clicking YES, the
session is re-established.
In TurboVNC it fails with "Error while waiting for server message" with OK, and
that's that. clicking OK, now connection is lost, and I don't even know to
which server.
At any given time I may be connected to ~20 different servers, some in China,
USA, EU, slow/faster networks, so really re-establishing is a big deal.
so far, seems like turboVNC loses most connections, then tiger, then tightvnc,
but I'm still testing..
If the TigherVNC developers are here, I would ask for 2 options:
1. optionally auto-re-establish lost connections, have an option that says
auto-reconnect, then just reconnect (say up to 4 times over 5 minutes or
something)
2. the TOP tool-bar, with NEW connection, this is a must-have, otherwise u have
to go to the OS and find the vnc icon, or type the command on a local-shell.
anyways, thanks again for everyone's interest and support here!
For time being I'll try the newer 2.7 tightvnc + tigervnc 1.0.1 with toolbar.
Stormy.
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From: DRC <dcomman...@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Stormy <stormy1...@yahoo.com>; "tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Tigervnc-users] VNC with Menu Bar on top?
Yes. For a little historical perspective, TightVNC basically spawned
all of these projects, but in various ways. TurboVNC is the most direct
descendent of TightVNC 1.3.x. It forked from that project nearly 10
years ago and was originally just TightVNC 1.3.x with high-speed JPEG
support. Many changes have occurred since then, but TurboVNC's Unix
server and Windows viewer still have a lot of the same look & feel as
TightVNC 1.3.x, although they're about an order of magnitude faster.
TigerVNC was a product of a next-generation development effort that
originally took place within the TightVNC project, an effort to rewrite
TightVNC using the RealVNC 4 code base. Thus, some of the features from
TightVNC 1.3.x didn't make it into TigerVNC, owing to its RealVNC
heritage. Some have since been added, but not all. TigerVNC's server
still has a similar look & feel to RealVNC, although the viewer has been
completely rewritten. In 2011, I ported many of the performance
enhancements from TurboVNC into TigerVNC, so for most common cases, they
can be made to perform similarly, although the general approach that
both projects take is somewhat different.
In 2009, TigerVNC split off from TightVNC, and Constantin dropped
support for Un*x platforms altogether in TightVNC 2.x and later.
TightVNC 2.x has probably the most sophisticated interface among Windows
VNC solutions. Unfortunately, however, it's also the slowest by far.
I've done a lot of research, both in the context of integrating my
"Turbo" version of the Tight encoder into TigerVNC and also doing the
same for libvncserver. This research showed definitively that it is
possible using the "Turbo" encoding methods to achieve similar levels of
"tightness" to TightVNC without requiring the intense amount of CPU time
that TightVNC requires. Unfortunately, their codec is so CPU-hungry
that it is usually unable to fill up even a low-speed broadband pipe.
With version 1.2, TigerVNC switched to a common viewer code base, based
on FLTK. This has required extending FLTK to support a lot of the
features that TigerVNC needs, and I have a feeling that FLTK would have
to be further extended to support a toolbar, if history is any
indication. Thus, I can pretty much understand why that's not a high
priority, as I suspect it would be a huge PITA to implement.
Anyhow, since the performance of TurboVNC and TigerVNC is very similar,
there is no reason why you can't mix and match their clients and servers
to suit your needs.
On 4/20/14 4:14 PM, Stormy wrote:
> Thanks much! This is exactly what I was looking for, also found that
> latest tighvnc also has it... Too bad the tiger took it out and all
> these years it is not back.. It could be an "optional" thing left to
> the user to decide.. I personally can't work w/o it :)
>
> Thanks & cheers!
>
> Stormy
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