ChromiVNC ... has the occasional incompatibility with certain software (I found working remotely in Think Pascal would eventually crash it, and using Eudora remotely for a period of time, half an hour, say, also occasionally causes a freeze).
That is not good news... Anythign is better than nothing, but freezing the mac is not a good thing.
I have not seen that many freezes, even when I was connecting almost every day for at least half an hour at a time (and that was over a 56k modem!) - the main problem I had was regular-ish crashing whenever I used Think Pascal remotely (didn't do that very often). Eudora only causes an occasional crash if I use it constantly for half an hour to an hour, say. (I think the problem is related to dragging around messages between mailboxes).
It's also quite possible the problems might go back to something totally unconnected with Eudora/Think-Pascal -it could be some conflict with other extensions, for example, or some oddity/bug with the OS version I'm using (8.1 on a PB Duo 2300), which particularly come into effect for some reason with certain apps.
The bottom line is that it's well worth trying and investigating a bit -see if you can find specific circumstances/apps/etc that cause a crash, and try to work around them...
Is this still developed by someone or is this going to stay as it is now, for the bugs etc?
Jonathan Morton developed ChromiVNC, and has been quite active in this list. His last post was Nov.19th last year, so I don't know what he's up to at the moment...
As I implied above, I suspect most serious issues that occur with ChromiVNC could well be simply 'compatibility' problems with other software, rather than directly caused by bugs in ChromiVNC. More development may not actually help a great deal, unless problems can be pinned down very specifically and worked around.
The old 'official' AT&T VNC server for Mac (Classic) is very buggy ...don't do too much serious work remotely through to the Mac.
Not for me then...
What do you plan on doing?
The main thing to watch out for in VNCThing is a bug in one of the encodings (RRE) ...causes it to lose connection regularly with ChromiVNC
Hmm, that's not too good then, since you say that is the best server.
It's not a problem at all - you just have to prevent VNCThing from using RRE by deselecting it in its connection prefs. For various reasons (that I won't go into here), it's very rare for it to lead to a significant loss in encoding efficiency...
For OSX, another viewer is VNCDimension... latest version (0.7) -it seems to not keep up too well with mouse tracking, etc. I'm not sure if the problem is to do with the
Hmm, this might make it a little frustrating to work with perhaps...
Depends if it's the same when used to view Windows-based servers -it may be a peculiarity of use with Xvnc, or maybe a peculiarity of the connection speed (fast LAN, in my case)...?
I also just realised I mixed up a point about VNCThing vs VNCDimension. It's VNCDimension (rather than VNCThing) that only allows emulation of middle-click (but has 'direct' right-click).
Bye!
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