[Tfug] Anyone know of a decent X VNC Client?
Chad Woolley
thewoolleyman at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 00:36:16 MST 2006
So, I just found that xtightvncviewer has a popup menu if you hit F8,
allowing you to refresh and toggle fullscreen mode. That helps a
little.
-- Chad
On 8/4/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> By "decent", I mean one with buttons on the GUI, for stuff like
> ctrl-alt-delete, force refresh, 256-color mode, maybe a startup dialog
> that remembers recently used hosts, ports, and options.
>
> I've tried realvnc, and tightvnc, but they are so lame compared to
> UltraVNC on windows (which has that cool autoscale feature and the
> video driver hook that makes it almost as fast as Remote Desktop).
>
> Yes, I know I could figure out the command line options and write
> startup scripts, but I connect to a lot of different systems via VNC,
> and I just really don't get off on spending my time writing scripts or
> learning keybindings when I can just click a button to do the same
> thing on the windows version. I already have to write enough scripts
> and learn enough keybindings for my other work!
>
> -- Chad
>
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