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[ANN] Chicken of the VNC 2.0b1
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Tempe, AZ
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It's been a long time since a public release of Chicken, so I figured VNC users would want to know about this one.
Chicken of the VNC is a fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.
Chicken features Rendezvous server discover; CPU performance throttling; Keychain integration; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.
New Goodies: - New connection manager that stores commonly used servers.
- Auto-discovery of servers via Rendezvous.
- Added keychain support.
- Added support for keyboard commands when connection windows are not the frontmost windows.
- Added support for customizable menu key equivalents.
- Clarified menus. rearranged them, and made them more "Mac-like".
- Drastically improved documentation.
- Added timers for mouse button emulation that help prevent accidental emulation.
- Added ability to specify connection options from the command line.
- Shift-Tab now works properly on Windows machines.
- Capslock now works on Windows machines.
- Resolved errors when connection to RealVNC using ZLibHex encoding.
- Resolved errors when connecting to OSXVNC using Tight encoding.
- Miscellaneous other encoding fixes.
- Tight encoding is no longer the default encoding.
- Widened "Port (or Display)" text field so it can hold 5 digits.
- Port numbers below 100 are now interpreted as a display number, instead of numbers below 10.
- Mouse tracking no longer breaks after exiting from full-screen mode.
- Resolved an issue that could cause Chicken to crash if the server connection unexpectedly died.
- When a server connection dies, Chicken now notifies the user with a sheet so that the user can see which connection it was.
- Removed the "Quit" option from the notification presented when a server has died.
- Changed release date in "About Chicken of the VNC" for 1.3.6 to properly reflect the year 2003.
- New VNC graphics in About dialog by Tobia Conforto tobix@linux.it
Chicken is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!
Download Chicken here!
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Geekspiff - generating spiffdiddlee software since before you began paying attention.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Awesome !
I noted OSXVnc mentioned new stuff with Chicken 
Fanks for the mega work !
p.s. When trying to connect in 1.3.6 via ssh to a ARD2 served machine I have seen a "wrong version error" (from memory), works fine with no ssh, has this been a known issue and is it fixerated in the v2?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
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Has anyone had success in connecting to a Windows VNC Server with Apple Remote Desktop as the client?
if so, which Windows VNC Servers did you have success with?
The only way I can connect now is using Chicken to connect to TightVNC server on the windows side from my mac .
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: zurich, switzerland
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Cool! Thanks Smeger. I've been using VNCThing as the old version of Chicken of the VNC didn't work with my PC, but I'll give it another try again.
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