Remote assistance for X

[Karl J. Runge]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> 
> Proto: RFB 003.008
> 
> Connected to RFB server, using protocol version 3.8
> Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
> Security-Type: 16 (rfbSecTypeTight)
> No authentication needed
> 
> Desktop name ""
> ...
> ...and that's it.  The TightVNC server shows it's connected, and the 
> ssvncviewer console is still busy.  But no graphic window.  ^C on the 
> ssvncviewer window and the TightVNC server beeps and disconnects. 
> That's TightVNC 1.3.10 on Vista and ssvnc-1.0.22_1 on FreeBSD.

This is a bug in ssvncviewer that I will fix in the next release (1.0.26)

It has to do with the (silly, IMHO) TightVNC security type rfbSecTypeTight
(that has nothing to do with security or encryption; it is used to enable
other features!)

I believe a workaround for you will be:

    ssvncviewer -listen -rfbversion 3.7

this reverts to the previous protocol version where there is no issue.