RealVNC port for OS X? RealVNC/J/X

Submitted by m_rtinB on July 9, 2005 - 5:39pm

[float=left]IMAGE(http://www.realvnc.com/images/logo150x150.gif)[/float]I've tried different VNC clients, but my experience was that the screen randomly didn't update. Bummer.

I thought that using a server and client from the same provider might solve the problem. I found RealVNC.

Unfortunatly a native port of RealVNC has not been made for Mac OS X yet. Fortunatly RealVNC has released Java source to a pure Java client. Cool.

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  • Download RealVNC/J/X.
  • Run it.
  • vncviewer.jar will be in your home folder.


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I've downloaded the source, and patched it with a patch found in RealVNC's forums, compiled and archived it as an executable JAR-file.

Actually I've made a little script/program that does the whole thing (downloading, patching and all), that you can download.

P.S. If you want to convert it to a real applicaion (.app) it can be done with Jar Bundler if you installed Xcode.