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Product Description:
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 automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; listen mode for navigating through firewalls; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; remappable, smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.
This program is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!
Chicken features automatic server discovery via Rendezvous; listen mode for navigating through firewalls; an auto-scrolling full-screen mode; keychain integration; CPU performance throttling; remappable, smart unicode keybindings; mouse button emulation and native multibutton support; tons of supported transfer encodings including Tight and ZLib; and customizable connection profiles.
This program is distributed under the GNU public license. Source code is available and contributions are welcome!
What's new in this version:
- New Features
- Reimplemented mouse button emulation and added new options to either turn off emulation for a particular mouse button, emulate when holding a modifier key and clicking the left button, emulate when tapping a modifier key multiple times, or emulate when tapping a modifier key quickly and then clicking the left button.
- Added VNC view-only mode, used for watching a server without interacting with it.
- Added VNC listening mode, used for connecting to a server that is behind a firewall.
- Added menu commands to send cmd-option-escape, Insert, Delete, Pause, Break, Print and Execute keystrokes.
- Added a "New Connection..." menu item allows you to connect to a server without having to use a server in the server list.
- It's now possible to set bookmarked connections to always open in fullscreen mode.
- Settings for servers discovered via Bonjour are now saved when Chicken closes.
- Bonjour server discovery now looks for _rfb._tcp as well as the previous _vnc._tcp.
- It's now possible to explicitly specify a port number rather than a display number, either via the user interface or from the command line.
- Added French localization courtesy of Pascal Frey.
- Added Italian localization courtesy of Claudio Santucci.
- The server list in the Open Connection panel is now displayed in alphabetical order.
- Chicken now handles urls of type vnc:// and rfb://.
- Minimized connection windows no longer show a generic VNC icon.
- Connection windows now remember their size and location.
- Dropped connections now attempt to auto-reconnect.
- Bug Fixes
- Resolved compatibility issues with Apple Remote Desktop 2.2.
- The 'F1' key is now transmitted to servers correctly.
- Improved handling of double and triple clicks. They now work reliably.
- Colors are no longer mapped improperly when using millions of colors mode.
- Resolved an issue that caused error messages when connecting to TightVNC.
- Resolved issues that caused connections to die with the message "Unknown rectangle encoding" or "Inflate error".
- Resolved issues with pasting text to the remote machine.
- Window frames are now saved properly between launches.
- Resolved an issue that could cause a crash when using a Logitech mouse.
- The Set Title and Connection Information windows are now closed properly when a connection is closed.
- Rendezvous is now called Bonjour in the UI to fit new Apple naming conventions.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: |  (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.5) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Works great for me - Version: 2.0b4, 5/30/2008 11:29AM PST
iMacMike
This is the best FREE VNC client I've tried. I'm connecting from an iMac Duo Core running Leopard 10.5.2 to 4 WinXP computers running the free version of RealVNC Server 4.1.2 thru a Cisco VPN tunnel and cable internet. I can connect to all 4 remote servers simultaniously too! This works much better than Remote Desktop Connection.
When will the bugs be fixed, when will be release the new version (if any)? - Version: 2.0b4, 11/9/2007 07:11AM PST
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Christian Gras
Many bugs have been pointed out (see forum) and still no new version. The current Chicken of the VNC is still 2.0b4 and is 2 years old.
Does it mean that this program is not maintained any more?
For me the most important bug is the keyboard problem:
For non-US keyboard, the mapping is completely messy.
Does it mean that this program is not maintained any more?
For me the most important bug is the keyboard problem:
For non-US keyboard, the mapping is completely messy.
I just read about a faster VNC client - JollysFastVNC 0.96.30 and in the few minutes I have been using it, it is faster than Chicken.