new RFB viewer for unix

Adam Tauno Williams adam "at" morrison-ind.com
Mon, 05 Jun 2000 13:12:10 +0000


> Features xrfbviewer has:
> - released under GPL (of course)
> - very fast (often faster than vncviewer)
> - nice GUI, based on xclass, look and feel like the win viewer
> (including the scrollbars)
> - written in C++, after a code cleanup it will be easy portable to e.g.
> linux framebuffer, GGI ...
> - supports scaling like the win viewer
> - supports adjustable framerate to limit network loading (and video
> size...)
> - supports session recording and playback with time sync (xplayfbs is
> included)
>
> Features it does NOT YET have (but will be done the next two weeks):
> - fullscreen mode
> - clipboard transfer
> - commandline parameters
>
> other things to do:
> - .fbs -> .mpeg converter
> - code cleanup !
> - automake + autoconfig
> - far more documentation !

Looks great.  Any chance you could add zlib compression to your todo list? 
We've found that very handy over WAN's.

Systems and Network Administrator
Morrison Industries
1825 Monroe Ave NW.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49505
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