VNC on Xorg?

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Tue Jan 16 15:21:10 PST 2007



Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 1/11/07, Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:14 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> > Alan Hourihane wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 08:50 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
>> > >> Does anybody know of a version of VNC which is based on Xorg 6.9 or
>> > >> greater? For example, Tight VNC is based on an ancient version 
>> (XFree86).
>> > >
>> > > xf4vnc at xf4vnc.sf.net
>> > >
>> > > It has both modular and monolithic trees.
>> >
>> > Forgive me for being stupid, but I couldn't see any releases since 
>> 2004....
>> >
>> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48178
>>
>> There just hasn't been a new release of late. The code is in CVS though
>> ready for one. I'll probably do that soon.
> 
> Is there any plan to merge this into mainline Xorg? That'd be a nice
> win. I've been pulling the xf4vnc CVS and patching into xorg-server,
> but it'd be really nice to just have it there.

Unfortunately, since it's GPL, it can't be.

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