TurboVNC 1.1 beta1 is now available at the following link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualgl/files/TurboVNC/1.0.90%20%281.1beta1%29/
This includes a lot of minor enhancements submitted from the community, as well as numerous full-screen mode enhancements/fixes, X RENDER support, full-color cursors, and ARM Linux and FreeBSD support. Please test your favorite feature on your favorite platforms and let me know what breaks. Significant changes since 1.0.2 [1] autocutsel has been replaced with a more robust and configurable clipboard transfer mechanism based on the VNC X11 extension and the vncconfig utility used by RealVNC. [2] The Unix TurboVNC Server now implements the X RENDER extension, which enables font anti-aliasing and animated cursors and fixes various issues with KDE 4. Additionally, the server now embeds the FreeType library for improved font display and compatibility. [3] Replaced the broken "software cursor" implementation of rich (full-color) cursor rendering in the Unix TurboVNC Viewer with a proper implementation that uses the Xcursor library. This specifically fixes pointer issues that occurred when connecting to the Unix TigerVNC 1.2 Server. [4] The Unix TurboVNC Server now implements rich (full-color) cursor encoding, so viewers that support this RFB extension (including TigerVNC 1.2 and later and TurboVNC 1.1 and later) can display full-color animated cursors when connecting to the TurboVNC Server. [5] Enhanced the screen scaling feature in the Java TurboVNC Viewer and added a GUI option to control it. [6] Added an idle timeout feature to the Unix TurboVNC Server which, when enabled, will cause it to exit automatically whenever a certain number of seconds have elapsed since the last active VNC viewer connection. [7] Added a '-noxstartup' option to vncserver, which prevents it from executing the xstartup.turbovnc script. This is useful for those who may want to occasionally run TurboVNC without a window manager. [8] Fixed image corruption that occurred when using the Lossless Tight or Lossless Tight + Zlib protocols with the Unix TurboVNC Viewer running on a 16-bit-per-pixel X server. [9] Fixed TurboVNC Server build on ARM-based Linux systems [10] Added Xvnc command-line options and authentication configuration file directives for disabling clipboard transfer. [11] Added two options (-alrqual and -alrsamp) to Xvnc that allow for sending automatic lossless refreshes using JPEG rather than mathematically lossless images. [12] Fixed an issue whereby the Windows TurboVNC Viewer, when running on Windows 7, would display an all-white image on one of the monitors in a multi-monitor configuration the first time the viewer was switched to full-screen mode. [13] Changed the default full-screen behavior in the Windows TurboVNC Viewer such that the window only spans multiple monitors if the remote desktop will not fit on a single monitor. Added options to the command line, GUI, and .vnc file to allow users to override this behavior and force full-screen windows to always occupy one monitor or all monitors. [14] Fixed numerous issues with full-screen mode in the Unix TurboVNC Viewer. [15] Implemented -autopass option in the Windows TurboVNC Viewer, which works the same as the equivalent option in the Unix TurboVNC Viewer. In both viewers, -autopass can now be used with Unix Login Authentication as well. [16] Added an option to the F8 menu in the Unix TurboVNC Viewer that allows view-only mode to be enabled/disabled on an active VNC connection. [17] The TurboVNC Server should now build and run properly on FreeBSD. [18] Added ZRLE encoding to the Unix TurboVNC Server, which may improve performance with the RealVNC Viewer under certain circumstances. [19] The Windows TurboVNC Server (WinVNC) is no longer provided, as it was badly broken, and the only way to fix it would have involved a complete re-architecture. [20] The TurboVNC Server now includes a non-functional implementation of the X Input extension, primarily to avoid crashes in recent versions of Gnome that aren't smart enough to check for that extension's existence before using it. [21] Implemented an authentication plugin mechanism for the Java TurboVNC Viewer, which allows sites to write their own external class for obtaining Unix login authentication credentials. [22] Although there were no known issues with the implementation of the automatic lossless refresh feature in TurboVNC 1.0.x, the feature was re-implemented without the use of threads, in order to make it easier to maintain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Users mailing list VirtualGL-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-users
