About:
x11vnc is a program that allows one to remotely view and interact with real X displays (i.e. a display corresponding to a physical monitor, keyboard, and mouse) with any VNC viewer. It is similar to WinVNC and is designed to be compatible with all Unix variants and depend on a very small set of standard libraries. It supports a growing number of command line options, such as -nofb for dual- headed mode with Win2VNC. It is part of the LibVNCServer project.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
TightVNC file transfer support is added. The -passwdfile option is enhanced to handle any number of full-access and view-only passwords in an easy to maintain format. The -8to24 mode enables viewing multi-depth displays with 8- and 24-bit visuals for systems where the -overlay option is not supported. The -afteraccept, -loop, and -slow_fb options are added. The x11vnc source code has gone through a major reorganization.

Author:
Karl Runge [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.59/10.00 (7 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]2584&package_id=119006&release_id=626955
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]tes.php?release_id=626955&group_id=32584
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/x11vnc
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/net/x11vnc/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://libvncserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/libvncserver/
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=32584&atid=405858

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, Quality Engineers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, POSIX, Unix
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications :: Conferencing, Desktop Environment :: Tools, System :: Monitoring, Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.9.4	17-Sep-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.9.4	Major feature enhancements	17-Sep-2008 18:04
0.9.3	Major feature enhancements	04-Oct-2007 20:35
0.9.2	Minor bugfixes	18-Jun-2007 17:41
0.9.1	Minor feature enhancements	24-May-2007 17:53
0.9	Minor feature enhancements	19-Apr-2007 17:35
0.8.4	Major feature enhancements	01-Feb-2007 19:05
0.8.3	Major feature enhancements	13-Nov-2006 15:50
0.8.3-rc1	Major feature enhancements	21-Sep-2006 16:24
0.8.2	Major feature enhancements	13-Jul-2006 18:01
0.8.1	Minor feature enhancements	06-Jun-2006 21:18

 Articles referencing this project

• vnc2swf
  by jeff covey , in Project Reviews
  Sat, Feb 5th 2005 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] Great work!
by welshpjw - Jan 12th 2006 21:24:48

This is so handy to have for already running X11 sessions. Even more handy for older Xterminals that can't do this on thier own!

Thank you very much!

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[»] Looking for beta-testers for x11vnc-0.7.2
by Karl Runge - Apr 13th 2005 09:10:41

Hi, any beta-testing of 0.7.2 would be much appreciated, more info at: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/#beta-test

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[»] Awesome
by Sven Neuhaus - Sep 2nd 2004 05:57:34

This is an awesome program. I really missed the possibility of connecting with the VNC client to an already running X11 server. Thanks much!

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[»] Looking for beta testers for -scale option.
by Karl Runge - Jun 28th 2004 21:26:14

I'm not sure who will see this, but what the heck...

I'm the x11vnc author, I've just added server-side
scaling to x11vnc (-scale fraction option), and I'd
appreciate anyone who will help me test it out for bugs.
It might be on the slow side, I'm not so worried about
that as much as painting errors or very poor image
quality. The new file in the sourceforge libvncserver CVS
and also at http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/x11vnc.c
See the FAQ on scaling for more info. Thanks.

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