Specification for the X11 VNC extension?

[Pierre Ossman]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:47:47 +0200
Corne Beerse <cbeerse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I did not see the scope of your question.
> 
> For clipboard transfers, I expected that vnc has no clipboard transfer, 
> at least it did not have it in the past. From a sysadmin point of view, 
> I did see that as a security advantage, not a usability disadvantage.
> 
> For keyboard transfer, I experience no translation at all. If I type a é 
> (as in my name) on my msWindows desktop, I get rubbish in a hp-ux vnc 
> session. For this reason I have the language/keyboard selection enabled 
> and switch between 'us-international' (my msWindows default) and 'us' 
> for the vnc sessions (and ssh, and telnet and such).
> 

I'm afraid you're still misunderstanding. This is not an end-user
question. This is a matter of internal procotols that I, as a VNC
developer, need an official specification for in order to guarantee
interoperability between VNC implementations.

I get the impression that you are not involved in VNC development so I
doubt you have the answers I'm looking for.

Rgds
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