Comments on: ANNOUNCE: Vinagre 0.5 (aka 2.22)

By: sean

sean — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:18:09 +0000

Hi have just tried the version of vinagre provided by ubuntu jaunty. (22 aug 2009).

As usual I am disappointed with the unavailability of a very simple feature that I find with software such as microsofts remote desktop. That is, letting you know (once you are there) how to exit full screen mode.

Same issue with tsclient. If i mistakenly go into full screen mode and forget to look up the key combination for exiting it, the only way of getting back my desktop is to ctrl-f3, and kill it. The pop up window controls that microsoft remote desktop provides (at the top of the screen) is a simple solution to this. Surely, if microsoft can do it, you can do it too?

Also, I noticed, (sorry to mention a real problem) that I wasn’t anyway able to exit full screen mode (even though i did look up the key combination). It didn’t work. Anyone else had this problem?

By: JR

JR — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:12:33 +0000

The more things change the more they stay the same… dumb terminals attached to mainframes… morons.

By: Eventhorizon

Eventhorizon — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:08 +0000

Hi! I’m also waiting for the listen mode!
Any further information available about this?
Greetings Eventhorizon

By: Jonh Wendell

Jonh Wendell — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:50:46 +0000

It’s here: http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap

By: kralisec

kralisec — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:46:46 +0000

Very good : thanks !!
(if you can post a link to your wish list for noob like me who doesn’t find it )

By: Jonh Wendell

Jonh Wendell — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:04:36 +0000

@kralisec: By ‘signets’ you mean bookmarks? If so, it is in our RoadMap to add folders to bookmarks.

By: kralisec

kralisec — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:04:21 +0000

Hi John, since I discover your applicatio: I ask me how I can leave without it before !!
I did not find your wish list for vinagre, so I ask hear if it’s possible to have some tree with signets to the left ?

My point is after 2 days I have more than 10 signets, will be hundred in a few weeks …
anyway to manage them with categories ?

Really thank you !!

Good day,
Laurent.

By: jimcooncat

jimcooncat — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:54:45 +0000

Thanks, Jonh. Do you have a favorite windows server, or are you saying it doesn’t really matter, we’ll keep up? BTW, good luck with RDP support!

Dan, I’ve been buying dumb, small, quiet thin clients for $125 US that can do VNC, RDP, or LTSP. It’s the way to go, IMHO. Ubuntu 8.04 has lots of tricks, and you’ll be able to run Win2003 under KVM. Lots of neat tricks available this way using Ubuntu to firewall, run dnsmasq to speed up internet lookups, install web caching software, even host linux programs to your clients with xming.

If you haven’t picked a server yet, get yourself a newer AMD box and pump up the ram to 3GB. (AMD over Intel, as you don’t have to worry about BIOS being enabled, and other concerns.) Make sure you have a gigabit ethernet card and hook it to a switch that has a gigabit jack — the rest going to the clients can be 100MB. You should be able to run a small office or department off that. Best wishes!

By: Jonh Wendell

Jonh Wendell — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:28:06 +0000

@jimcooncat: I understand you. I talked about UltraVNC, but many VNC servers do not respect the RFB specification.

Basically what I mean is: There is a protocol specification, but UltraVNC breaks it, when, for instance, it tells that its version is 3.6, where the existent versions are 3.3, 3.7 and 3.8. There is even other servers which reports version 4.0!

But do not worry, we want to be compatible with most VNC servers around. If you have some trouble with your VNC server, fill a bug and we will investigate.

By: Jonh Wendell

Jonh Wendell — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:19:40 +0000

@Dan: Yes, you are right. What you need is a RDP client. Vinagre currently only supports VNC. It is planned for next version the support for RDP connections.

Right now you can access RDP servers with rdesktop/tsclient.