Yes VNC does work with the server integrated in OSX. Don't forget to allow VNC users to connect and to enter a VNC password.

http://aberco.free.fr/imagesdivers/vnconnokia.jpg

Also the OSX server works very well with Remote Desktop, but others VNC clients are very slow. The sceen seems to be updated as a whole image whereas when using UltraVNC on a PC the image is updated by chunks as elements are changing on the remote computer.

Anyway this is totally awesome, I was waiting for this app too :)

Well, at last I have got my connection between the 770 and my server PC, both running VNC.

I started by disconnecting Internet, then I opened up all roadblocks in windows XP’s Fierwall and in my Router.

But, one thing I noticed, I had to start up a Browser for the 770 to register on my Router, if I didn’t do that first, nothing happen when I started VNC in the 770.

From that I worked my way back, putting in roadblocks after roadblocks in Firewalls and Router.

I am running connection with VNC Password Authentication.

So far so good.

TTP

The VNC viewer does not ask for the internet connection. You must do it manually by clicking on the globe (the small one in the status bar) and select connecting. The tablet is connected when a "W" is marked on that globe. By doing this you are not obliged to open tne browser every time.

Ctrl-Alt-Del?
 

This *IS* what I've been waiting for!
Thanks for doing a great job on this, its one of the main things I want to use on my 770.

I'm managing to connect to my w2k server and using vnc authentication. Both working a treat.

Except... Im obviously missing something really simple but how do you send the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination I need to unlock/login to the server?

I can see a "Doh!" moment coming on when someone tells me how to do this :)

Cheers
Maxxy

Just a simple question. Is it possible to wake my powerbook up from sleep from the 770 ? The lid was open but the powerbook went to sleep after 2 hours of inactivity. The 770 said that it could not connect to the server. Just waking the powerbook up solved it but it would be easier to be able to do that directly from the 770. The temp solution would be to set the computer sleep to NEVER.

It was possible to do it with the 1st version of RemoteDesktop, but since the 2nd release Apple disabled this function for security reasons. You may be able to wake up the PowerBook by enabling the "wake up on administrator request over LAN" in energy savings (systeme preferences). Other than that setting the computer not to sleep is the only solution.

watchdoc -

I used the gui in the 770's VNC app to connect...I wouldn't even know how to do it from the command line in xterm...hehehe...

I just noticed a few messages above that Kiryu mentioned you have to remember to connect manually to your wireless network by clicking on the globe at the top and waiting until you have a steady "W" icon...the vnc app doesn't automatically connect like the browser does...

I just clicked the "connect" icon, and when it asks for the address, I put in the address that OSXvnc shows when you start the server. Of course, this only works when you on your local network...if you are trying to access it across the Internet, you would need to find the true IP for the computer running OSXvnc...

I use Nicecast to get the true IP, not to mention it's a cool program to set up Shoutcast streams to access from the 770. In fact, one cool use of the setup is I can access and stream my XM Online to the 770 as a Shoutcast stream from my mac...using vnc, i can change the channels, too...you normally need windows media player to access XM...

Some additional info:

1. Ctrl-Alt-Del is not currently supported. I'll provide a way to send this key sequence in the next release or the one following it.
2. There are no inputs supported from the command-line. The only way to specify a VNC server is to use the GUI.
3. You'll need to use one of the various ways to connect to a network before using vncviewer. I'll address this in the next release or the one following it.

Aaron

Thats great to hear Aaron, keep up the good work!

Cheers
Maxxy

Yes thanks for this port! it was a must have for the 770.
An improvement would be to be able to set up the viewer configuration, such as the number of color and the compression. This would probably add more speed and free up some CPU.
Keep up the good work!

Now I have connection between my 770 and the VNC server via a WAN IP, not bad at all.

Just now I’m running both the VNC server and the IIS server over the IIS server I run a web cam, checking our Car-parking, very neat to see all this in the 770.a

TTP

Thanks for the great app!

I am having one weird problem with it that is preventing me from testing it though.
After installing it, I could start the GUI but I didn't try to connect to anything since I didn't have a VNCserver set up. So I went onto do something else. I was streaming some audio and suddenly my wireless connection died. When I tried to reconnect the 770 gave me a connection error. It wouldn't connect to my AP (that uses WPA-PSK) but had no problem connecting to my neighbour's unsecured AP. No amount of reboots or the 770 or my AP allowed it to connect. I also started to have problems accessing some other built in apps like the Control Panel. They would look like they were starting up but wouldn't. I figured that I would reverse the last thing that I did with my 770 (which was installing your vncclient) and as soon as I uninstalled it, my wireless connection and other apps worked.
I can't really understand what is happening here. I will try to do some poking and prodding to see if I can recreate this problem reliably when I have some time.
Does your VNC app require the updated OS firmware or should it run on the stock OS that comes shipped with the N770?
Is anyone else seeing this on a WPA connection?

Sounds pretty odd. I seriously doubt that installing VNC is the problem here, since all the install does is add some new files. It doesn't touch any existing settings.

Aaron

This is a killer application, thanks!

A wish: "Hide/disable scrollbars" feature would be great (now 800x480 sessions still show the scrollbars in full screen mode)

VNC Viewer
 

ttpcomp,

I am trying to connect to a VNC server on an XP box. The connection is successful from my Ubuntu box. What are you typing into the VNC server: field under "VNC Viewer:Connection Details on the 770?

I have been typing in just the server IP address and it fails to connect.

Just the local IP-number (192.168.0.xxx)´, of the PC I'm running the VNC server on.
And as I run Password authentication, i type in the PW.

Switch of the Fierwall in the XP and other blocking, but unhook the Internet first, no need to invite disaster.

I you get a connection just start to put blocking back and last the Internet-connection.

Check what other firewalls you have, Roter, program etc.

TTP

Thanks a million to everyone who replied to my post. Thanks to you, I was able to make this work. It looks like I was making it harder than necessary by adding the screen variable to the connection details dialog input. When I simply entered the ip address, it worked like a charm.

I hope I'll be able to return the favor in the future.

New release now available: version 0.1.1!
 

A new release is available. Based on some initial tests on the device itself (as opposed to the scratchbox emulation environment), it seems to work better than the last one overall. Here's the changelog:

* Fixed bug that prevented characters with accents (and other multi-byte characters) from being sent to the VNC server properly
* Fixed bug that kept scrollbars around even when they weren't needed
* New feature: hardware movement keys now scroll the display if held down
* Code cleanup--changed to use gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport. May possibly result in better performance and behavior.

I have to say that scrolling using the hardware movement keys is quite nice :-) . Also, the second changelog entry means that if you setup a VNC server with a geometry of 800x480 or less, you will be able to view it without scrollbars at full screen without the toolbar.

In case some of you are wondering why XYZ feature isn't in this release, I mostly intended it as a bug fix release, but I managed to sneak the hardware movement keys in.

The new package can be found at http://www.aracnet.com/~alevinsn/vnc..._0.1.1_arm.deb. Uninstall the previous package first (actually, it won't let you install without uninstalling the previous package).

Aaron

This is great. I have managed to connect to my XP box which I set up with a desktop dimension of 800x400. Does anyone know of a way to scale down the desktop and applications to a size so that they display better on the 770.

ED

Vnc
 

ttpcomp,

Thanks for your help. I added port 5900 in the XP firewall and I am all set.

Hey, 0.1.1 is working great with my XP box! I'm entering this via Firefox via VNC :-) Many thanks for the good work.

Thanks again ! Keep 'em coming -- especially the history ;-)

Hi, great work here!

I've just a question: is it possible to include an auto-resizing option in the viewer?

I don't like to resize my desktop to 800x600 or less just to see the entire screen on my 770.

Or is possible to force a smaller geometry directly via the VNC server? I haven't got found that option (using RealVNC).

I woluld like to force my display adapter in PC to work in 800x480 mode and just use 770 with VNC as remote display (without any monitor in PC). But ATI Radeon doesn't support that resolution.

Does anybody know a hack to make this happen?

kepler

Kepler,

try Powerstrip, http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm, it should allow you to setup
non standard modes.

Crash running against Debian vncserver
 

I'm seeing a crash similar to what others have described when running against the Gnome VNC server (vino), but in my case I am using the Debian vncserver server.

I'll try tightvncserver instead, to see if that works better.

You can possibly get a bit more information by invoking vncviewer from xterm instead of launching it from the GUI. In order to do this, you'll need xterm. After starting xterm, invoke vncviewer with the following: run-standalone.sh /var/lib/install/usr/bin/vncviewer . Then, do what you would normally do in the VNC Viewer GUI. When VNC viewer crashes, go back to xterm and see if there is any useful output.

Aaron

Bug report regarding accented characters
 

Aaron, you really made most characters work in this new release. I use characters for both swedish and danish on a daily basis and I have found out that you support all characters I need EXCEPT ø. Isn't that strange? Even the swedish ö is supported but not the danish one. Can you remedy that in your next release?

Thanks for a great application

Johan

Aaron,

Does your GUI VNC version support any command line options? Vidar's Xwin port allowed you to enter server address and password in the command line, which was helpful.

Or, do GUI apps not allow command line options?

(Edit)

From prev post, answer = NO
Would be nice, though.

Vidar's X windows port was no more than a simple build of the Real VNC viewer client with an additional option implement to pass in the password.

My port is intended to be used without needing xterm. I may support command-line options in a future release, but any options that could be passed in via the command-line would first need to be supported via the GUI first. GUI applications can support command-line options, but doing so certainly isn't a requirement for Maemo GUI applications.

Aaron

Hi Johan,

I tested this character, and it worked fine on my end. I also went through and tested every accented character, and all of them work on my end. I tested against the terminal application that comes with KDE (konsole). With konsole active in the VNC window, I went through and pressed each of the accented keys on the virtual keyboard, and all of them went through successfully.

The only character I could find that didn't work was one of the symbols, the "No" symbol, and this came through as a box, probably because the character isn't supported by konsole or because it's not supported in the terminfo or something like that.

So, to sum up, I cannot reproduce this bug report.

Aaron

Thanks. I will certainly try this in the next few days, but for now I have also installed tightvncserver on my target Debian box, and with that as the server your VNC viewer is working beautifully.

It really is amazing; I wouldn't have thought it practical to use VNC viewer on so small a device as the 770, but the 770's screen is so good that it really is practical and effective. Many thanks Aaron for your work on this port.

And finally a question: does anyone know how I can type control characters? (For Emacs.)

Regards,
Neil

New version now available: 0.2
 

A new version of the VNC viewer port is now available, 0.2. 0.2 provides a number of new features. The changelog is as follows:

* New feature: Added options dialog--provides ability to specify bit depth and shared connections
* New feature: Replaced host text entry and text combo box--allows user to choose previous hosts.
* New feature: Now saving and restoring following settings: hosts list, shared setting, default depth setting, and toolbar settings
* New feature: keeping track of most recent setting with respect to host, depth, and shared
* New feature: Added button to toolbar to show context window if provided by current input manager context
* Misc code cleanup

What does this mean? This means that it now remembers old host names, supports different bit depths, shared connections, and the ability to activate the virtual keyboard using a toolbar button. It remembers some other settings as well between sessions. This release provides some of the most requested features.

Grab it at http://www.aracnet.com/~alevinsn/vncviewer_0.2_arm.deb.

Aaron

Just installed the new version and the new features seem to work a treat. Great job Aaron!

Will a "ctrl-alt-del" feature be in the next release? Not being able to send that combination to unlock my winders servers is the only thing stopping me from using the app fully.

Otherwise you've done a great job so far. Thanks!

I plan to support Ctrl-Alt-Del and possibly some other keypress combos in the next major release (0.3). I'm taking a break from development, however, so 0.3 won't be available for at least a week.

One option for sending Ctrl, Alt, and other keys would be to use a bluetooth keyboard with the bluetooth input method. I don't have a BT keyboard, so I can't test it, but I know that someone posted early on mentioning that the VNC viewer worked with with the BT IM.

Aaron

I found that the application installer showed that I had installed version 0.1.1 installed, so I uninstalled it and installed the newer version.

Thanks for that,btw.

I'm was wondering if it made sense to have an "About" or "Info" dialog that would identify the version and include a link to the page where the latest version would be located.

Actually, as I think about it, the thanks isn't so btw. It's much more direct: Thanks!

Audio?
 

I've got a longish question that I thought I should better ask in a different thread, in case it really isn't a VNC issue.

But basically what I want to know is if audio can be sent from the desktop to the "viewer" as well as the display. (Does that make it a "viewer/receiver"?)

The thread where I explain what I'm after (not music, btw) is
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...=5899#post5899

And in a word it's TTS.

VNCviewer displayed portrait-style?
 

As it happens, one application I'd like to run remotely will only display in a window that is proportionally shaped AND portrait style.

FBReader, for one, and Frozen Bubbles, for another (IIRC), are apps that provide a portrait mode for viewing the app.

Probably not so many people would find this as useful as I, but would it be possible for VNC viewer to do the same?

(Btw, the app is Microsoft Reader.)

username
 

How can I enter a user name when connecting to a vnc server? It only allows me to select the password box.