Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote display system which allows you to view and interact with a virtual desktop environment that is running on another computer on the network. Using VNC, you can run graphical applications on a remote machine and send only the display from these applications to your local machine. VNC is platform-independent and supports a wide variety of operating systems and architectures as both servers and clients.
TigerVNC is a high-speed version of VNC based on the RealVNC 4 and X.org code bases. TigerVNC started as a next-generation development effort for TightVNC on Unix and Linux platforms, but it split from its parent project in early 2009 so that TightVNC could focus on Windows platforms. TigerVNC supports a variant of Tight encoding that is greatly accelerated by the use of the libjpeg-turbo JPEG codec.
Incomplete and generally out of date copyright list:
Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. Copyright (C) 2000-2006 TightVNC Group Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Martin Koegler Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Copyright (C) 2006 OCCAM Financial Technology Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Constantin Kaplinsky Copyright (C) 2004-2017 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB Copyright (C) 2010 Antoine Martin Copyright (C) 2010 m-privacy GmbH Copyright (C) 2009-2011 D. R. Commander Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Pierre Ossman for Cendio AB Copyright (C) 2004, 2009-2011 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2009-2024 TigerVNC Team All Rights Reserved.
This software is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file LICENCE.TXT for the conditions under which this software is made available. TigerVNC also contains code from other sources. See the Acknowledgements section below, and the individual source files, for details of the conditions under which they are made available.
All versions of TigerVNC contain the following programs:
- vncviewer - the cross-platform TigerVNC Viewer, written using FLTK.
- vncviewer connects to a VNC server and allows you to interact with the remote desktop being displayed by the VNC server. The VNC server can be running on a Windows or a Unix/Linux machine.
The Windows version of TigerVNC contains the following programs:
- winvnc - the TigerVNC server for Windows. winvnc allows a Windows desktop to
- be accessed remotely using a VNC viewer.
WARNING: winvnc is currently unmaintained and and may not function correctly.
winvnc may not work if the Fast user switching or Remote desktop features are in use.
The Unix/Linux version of TigerVNC contains the following programs:
- Xvnc - the TigerVNC server for Unix. Xvnc is both a VNC server and an X
- server with a "virtual" framebuffer. You should normally use the vncserver service to start Xvnc.
- vncpasswd - a program which allows you to change the VNC password used to
- access your VNC server sessions (assuming that VNC authentication is being used.) This command must be run to set a password before using VNC authentication with any of the servers or services.
- vncconfig - a program which is used to configure and control a running
- instance of Xvnc.
- x0vncserver - an inefficient VNC server which continuously polls any X
- display, allowing it to be controlled via VNC. It is intended mainly as a demonstration of a simple VNC server.
It also contains the following systemd service:
- vncserver@.service - a service to start a user session with Xvnc and one of
- the desktop environments available on the system.
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Copyright (c) 1988,1989,1990,1991,1992 by Richard Outerbridge. (GEnie : OUTER; CIS : [71755,204]) Graven Imagery, 1992.
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