Hi Scott I fully agree with you that this would be useful.
Patches are welcome. Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:37:02PM -0500, Scott Bigham wrote: > Package: xvnc4viewer > Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-31 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > I sometimes have occasion to use xvnc4viewer to access an X display > behind a gateway host whose ssh server listens on a non-standard port. > To date, I've had to use a stub shell script via $VNC_VIA_CMD that > passes the appropriate -p option to ssh. Other VNC viewer programs I've > used, however, allow the gateway to be specified as "host:port" for > precisely this reason, and I believe this would be useful functionality > to add to xvnc4viewer's -via option. The necessary modifications are > fairly small; I've attached a patch. Thank you for your consideration. > > -sbigham > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages xvnc4viewer depends on: > ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries > ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library > ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library > ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library > ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library > ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension > librar > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime > > xvnc4viewer recommends no packages. > > xvnc4viewer suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [email protected] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [email protected] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
