If you are looking for a flavor of VNC that will export a specific X-based application instead of the whole desktop, x11vnc provides this functionality.
lizhong wrote: > It's strange that the first two web links in your email seems unusable. I > have found some information about GGI project through google, and I found > this VNC LibGGI target - allows LibGGI applications to display over the > network using the VNC protocol. Needs porting from old LibGGI. > I want to develop something similar like VNC libGGI target, a special VNC > server based on X-windows, which could provides interface of any single X > appliction. It would work like this. The user specifies the application he > wants, and the special VNC server will transfer the interface of that > application through the network to the user. The VNC viewer does not need to > be changed at all, for it simply displays what the server gives it. > The main difficulty is how I can separate the interface of a single X > appliction from the whole desktop. I'am a newbie of X-windows, and I expect > for any suggestion on this problem. Thank you for any help! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Rosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "lizhong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:51 PM > Subject: Re: About single application RFB server > > > >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:44:40PM +0800, lizhong wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> As we know, vnc is used to send desktop to a client from the >>> server. I've dig into the emails of vnc mail list, and found a >>> single application vnc server called "VNC CD Player". This program >>> was never published, and I just know that it provides remote CD >>> Player interface using RFB protocol. Is there any ready-made VNC >>> server which could allow the user to select a remote appliction, >>> and transmit not the whole desktop but only the interface of this >>> appliction? Thanks for any help! >>> >> I have written an RFB/VNC backend [1] for libggi [2]. So any >> decently well-written GGI application should be able to act as a >> single application VNC server. >> >> There is a caveat though, and that is that the VNC backend is only >> in the CVS version [3] of libggi, and the release including it is >> probably not going to happen anytime soon. So, you will have to do >> some compiling yourself to get going. >> >> I know there was once another such backend written by Steve Cheng >> which was based on the RealVNC code base, but that work was never >> merged due to license incompatibilities. This backend has been >> written from scratch to evade the license incompatibility (BSD vs. >> GPL). >> >> Cheers, >> Peter >> >> [1] >> http://www.ggi-project.org/documentation/libggi/current/display-vnc.7.html >> [2] http://www.ggi-project.org/ >> [3] http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=16307 >> > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
