TigerVNC is an open source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server and client software, started as a fork of TightVNC in 2009. The client supports Windows, Linux and macOS. The server supports Linux. There is no server for macOS and as of release 1.11.0 the Windows server is no longer maintained.
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. 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. 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. winvnc - the TigerVNC server for Windows. winvnc allows a Windows desktop to be accessed remotely using a VNC viewer. winvnc may not work if the Fast user switching or Remote desktop features are in use. 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. w0vncserver - a VNC server for Wayland compositors which gives control over your local Wayland session. This distribution contains public domain DES software by Richard Outerbridge. This is: Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from The Open Group.
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TigerVNC is an open source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server and client software, started as a fork of TightVNC in 2009. The client supports Windows, Linux and macOS. The server supports Linux. There is no server for macOS and as of release 1.11.0 the Windows server is no longer maintained.
==History== Red Hat, Cendio AB, and TurboVNC maintainers started this fork because RealVNC had focused on their enterprise non-open VNC and no TightVNC update had appeared since 2006. The past few years however, Cendio AB who use it for their product ThinLinc is the main contributor to the project. TigerVNC is fully open-source, with development and discussion done via publicly accessible mailing lists and repositories.
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