Hi Scott

I fully agree with you that this would be useful.

Patches are welcome.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:37:02PM -0500, Scott Bigham wrote:
> Package: xvnc4viewer
> Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-31
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> I sometimes have occasion to use xvnc4viewer to access an X display
> behind a gateway host whose ssh server listens on a non-standard port.
> To date, I've had to use a stub shell script via $VNC_VIA_CMD that
> passes the appropriate -p option to ssh.  Other VNC viewer programs I've
> used, however, allow the gateway to be specified as "host:port" for
> precisely this reason, and I believe this would be useful functionality
> to add to xvnc4viewer's -via option.  The necessary modifications are
> fairly small; I've attached a patch.  Thank you for your consideration.
> 
>                                               -sbigham
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages xvnc4viewer depends on:
> ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.3-3         GCC support library
> ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
> ii  libstdc++6             4.3.3-3           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
> ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension 
> librar
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
> 
> xvnc4viewer recommends no packages.
> 
> xvnc4viewer suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information



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