>Is there a Mac OS X port of VNC now? Or, is anyone working on one? Xvnc will compile, with a little work, on OSX without any problems. This will give you an independent X11 display.
However, if you want to export your Mac's actual desktop, there is OSXVnc (www.osxvnc.com). It's been around for quite a while now. <RANDOM-RAMBLINGS MODE="ON"> I personally think it could do with some of the simple enhancements in ChromiVNC (intelligent decisions on which encoding to use for each and every update, rather than just using one encoding the whole time. And also a 'coarse-grain' update grid for working out efficient update rects. -The Windows server uses a coarse-grain grid approach, I think. Block size of 32x32 pixels IIRC?) This is especially so since OSX has such a large amount of 'eye-candy' -it's very hard for VNC to keep up with all the changes (esp. if you have somewhat limited bandwidth). Think of all the subtle 'stripes' in the titlebars, menus, alerts and dock -and then there's the translucency, and bouncing dock icons, and the genie effect, and photorealistic icons everywhere... Even better would be more intelligent encodings. (I think Jonathan has some ideas about this. -And, if I may throw in my own little suggestion, I think it would be *very easy* to create a very simple extension to *all* of the 'standard' encodings [RRE/CoRRE/Hextile] to include 'transparent' rect regions -imagine Hextile encoding, but with the ability to flag particular tiles as not needing updating. This would fit extremely well with the 'coarse-grain' grid approach used in both ChromiVNC and WinVNC... small price, big gain I suspect. If I wasn't already maxed out on other projects, I'd be doing this myself...) Just by way of example, I used to use ChromiVNC to connect to my Duo230 over a 28k modem. It was a bit painful, but I did it from time to time. (I use ~56k now - whoopee!) I tried to connect over 10baseT to my G4 cube running OSXVnc. It was not so much better than using the Duo over 56k! 100baseT was considerably better, but still not great, and nowhere near as smooth as a regular Xvnc server. <RANDOM-RAMBLINGS MODE="OFF"> Hope that helps! Adrian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
