There are a tonne of different VNC distributions, which are incredibly confusing.
Last time I looked into this (Nov 2015), TigerVNC was probably the best choice for general-purpose VNC server / client for Linux, as it was based on RealVNC Open 4.1.3 (TigerVNC was based off the older VNC 3.3.3r9 codebase). Most of the Linux distributions had started to package TigerVNC as their primary VNC distribution.
Unless things have been re-based, that's the one I'd start with. Of course, that was a few years ago - I have no idea whether development of either has stalled or whether there are any new distributions that have sprung up since then.
Cheers,
Peter. On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 22:25, Steven Rose steven@stevenjohnrose.co.uk wrote:
I'm a fan of TightVNC personally, although no experience with it in Ubuntu, it is however in the repo AFAIK.
Steven Rose stevenjohnrose.co.uk
-----Original Message----- From: main main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk On Behalf Of Chris Green Sent: 03 October 2018 20:20 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] VNC recommendations wanted please
I'm thinking of using VNC to remotely access a couple of GUI applications running on my home desktop machine. Both my home desktop and the remote client machine are running xubuntu 18.04.
I don't need a full desktop so a simple GUi just giving the ability to run programs is all I need. I *may* sometimes run over slow links so good link efficiency would be helpful. ... and finally it would be nice if it could use ssh for the link.
So what would people recommend, preferably from the Ubuntu repositories for server and client?
-- Chris Green
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