Re: [Aubit4gl-discuss] Re: We're live!!

[Andrej F. <an...@fa...>]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 01:03, Walter Haslbeck wrote:
> Hi Andrej,
> 
> >>From http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/howitworks.html :
> > 
> > We have also created simple servers which produce displays other than
> > desktops, using a simple toolkit. A "VNC CD player", for example,
> 
> So all we need is a GUI toolkit, which renders its output not to
> a X or Windows screen, but drives a VNC server.

Similar solution exists for libGGI:

http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/1998-07/0075.html

...and there is GTK port for libGGI:

http://ggitk.sourceforge.net/


See also 

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-February/msg00004.html

http://www.tridiavnc.com/list-mailist/2001/Apr/0016.html

http://handhelds.org/pipermail/ipaq/2002-February/012039.html

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/emb-vnc.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00228.html

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/doc/vnc/rfbcounter.html

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=21

http://fb2vnc.sourceforge.net/

http://www.rdesktop.org/old-archive/2000/msg00035.html

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-framebuffer.html

> 
> A good candidate will be GTK, because (AFAIK) it delegates all
> screen-rendering to GDK. So someone has to write a GDK backend
> which "renders" VNC commands.

There is a GDK for framebuffer

There is a VNC server for framebuffer...

> 
> Simple idea, but it must be hard to implement, because I haven't found
> something like this on the usual places (sf.net, fm.net)...
> 
> But there is a libvncserver (libvncserver.sf.net), which simplifies
> the task of writing an vnc server. I will take a closer look at this
> lib soon.

That would be very cool thing to do.

Andrej


> 
> Walter
> 
> 
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