Xvnc with WinVnc-behavior

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sunday, March 12, 2000, at 5:09:08 PM, you wrote:
> It would be nice with an Xvnc-server that can attach to a normal, running
> X-server and grab the displayed desktop from there, just like WinVnc does.
> Has anyone looked at this? I suppose it can be a bit tricky to get the
> screen contents from XFree, but I would be surprised if it was impossible.
> As a last resort, maybe one can use periodically dumps from xwd :-)
> Performance is not critical to me. 

On a related topic, can someone explain to me why VNC didn't end up
glued in to the XFree 4.0 release?  It would seem a fairly obvious
thing to do; I can't imagine no one's already done the work to
submit...

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra "at" baylink.com
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