Ola Lundqvist wrote:
Yes other distributions has solved this problem by simply switching to
other alternative vnc implementations.
Just a bit more feedback on this -
Redhat, and OpenSolaris, amongst others are switching from RealVNC to
tigervnc, as RealVNC seem to have dropped their opensource edition.
tigervnc requires source from the Debian xserver-xorg-core package to
build Xvnc and libvnc.so - in order to do so, it ships a patch
(autoreconf is required).
This means that building on Debian will either have to try and manually
track xserver-xorg-core, or integrate with it (e.g. as a patch), both
approaches will be a bit troublesome..
I looked at compiling tigervnc on Lenny or Squeeze (currently
xserver-xorg-core 1.4.2), but tigervnc only currently only ships with
support for xorg 1.5.x and 1.6.x (so it should be OK for sid, but
unfortunately I don't have time to try this now, as my main workstation
- which is the one I need libvnc.so on - runs squeeze).
I suppose it'd be nice to have the Xvnc server, and libvnc.so as part of
upstream xorg, but I've no idea if that has even been considered by the
parties involved!
In the meantime, the vnc server extension is only available on lenny
with the use of the commercial "RealVNC Enterprise" software.
HTH,
Tim.
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