Vino

• Designed for the “remote administration” use case

• With some more hacking would work very well for collaboration

• Vino is a VNC server which which exports an unmodified GNOME session

• Two possible strategies to get the screen contents:

  • GetImage based polling algorithm; very slow
  • No polling necessary when using XDAMAGE extension

• The RFB protocol code was grabbed from the libvncserver project, which in turn is made up of copied and pasted code from RealVNC, UltraVNC and TightVNC

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