Questions tagged [tightvnc]

TightVNC is a free remote control software package. With TightVNC, you can see the desktop of a remote machine and control it with your local mouse and keyboard, just like you would do it sitting in the front of that computer.

TightVNC is:

  • free for both personal and commercial usage, with full source code available
  • useful in administration, tech support, education, and for many other purposes
  • cross-platform, available for Windows and Unix, with Java client included
  • compatible with standard VNC software, conforming to RFB protocol specifications.

With TightVNC, you can:

  • cut your expenses and save your time on traveling
  • help your friends and family to solve problems with their computers remotely
  • make sure nothing wrong is happening on your computers when you are away.
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Black Rectangle on my screen

I have just installed TightVNC server on my hosted Ubuntu using this tutorial I can't see my xfce4 menu usually on the top left of the screen where there is red arrow as attached below. The black rectangle is draggable on the screen. Can someone…
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TightVnc change theme when disconnected

Every now & then i use Tightvnc to connect to the desktop from the laptop(Windows 7) The desktop pic on the (Windows 10) PC goes black as normal but then it loses the theme settings & creates a new unsaved theme with just one desktop picture (the…
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IP from MAC Address of a computer not in my network(remote)

I do not know if this is even a valid question but I am trying to get the IP address of a computer that I try to remotely connect to via TightVNC. I have checked some answers on the SO, but they were mostly about the ARP-table for finding the…
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TightVNC on Ubuntu does not see clipboard contents from MAC OS VNC Viewer

I installed TightVNC on Ubuntu On mac I use ScreenSharing tool or TightVNC Viewer (Java version) I can copy-paste from Ubuntu to MAC, but not from Mac to Ubuntu. Did you manage to work with TightVNC from MAC?
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LibVNC Compile Error on Windows: Unresolved External Symbol

In need of a bit of help here: I've spent all day trying to compile libvncserver (https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver) on a Windows 10 computer. I'm following the commands listed here…
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Connecting to tightvncserver shows brown screen and cursor and nothing else with Ubuntu 16.04

I am trying to connect to a server and installed tightvnc server on it following these steps : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers#Customising_your_session And hence my xstartup file looks like this: cat .vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh # Change…
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