On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:24:43PM +0000, Tony wrote:
> I am a great fan of VNC largely because it lets me access my Linux X 
> sessions over the Internet from a Windows machine anywhere.  I would 
> also like to be able start offering a Linux "terminal services" type of 
> solution to my customers instead of th MS one.
> 
> I started with the AT&T VNC (now RealVNC) and then discovered Alan 
> Hourihane's excellent xf4vnc project and started using his Xvnc program 
> as a drop-in replacement.  The thing that took me to xf4vnc was the 
> support for TrueType fonts that comes with the XFree86 version 4; this 
> immediately solved all the font problems that I had been having.
> 
> Then I discovered TightVNC, which claims a number of benefits but seems 
> to have the same fonts problems as RealVNC.  
> 
> Here's the question that I still have after quite some looking around:
> 
> If I must have TrueType fonts and bandwidth optimisation is also very 
> important, how can I find out what each of these alternatives has to 
> offer?  

xf4vnc already includes the TightVNC optimizations in 4.2.0.

Alan.
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