Bug#533909: vinagre: does not accept standard vnc display syntax

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/6/21 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at ubuntu.com>:
> Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Package: vinagre
>> Version: 0.5.1-2
>> Severity: normal
>>
>>
>> vinagre fails to recognize the standard display syntax.
>>
>> When connecting with the original vnc and many other client vnc display
>> :0 means server localhost port 5900, someserver:1 means server someserver and port 5901.
>
> server:0, server:1 etc is supported since 0.5.91:
>
>       server[:port]
>              Specifies the VNC server to connect with. The  VNC  server
>              name  or  IP address is followed by a colon (:) character,
>              and then followed by the VNC port number. The port  speci‐
>              fication  is  optional.  If  it  is not specified, default
>              value of 5900 will be used. If the  value  is  lower  than
>              1024, it will add 5900. For example, ":0" means "5900" and
>              ":1" means ":5901".
>
> Can you point me to some examples for clients accepting :0 for connecting to
> localhost?
>

In Debiant it would be xtightvncviewer and xvnc4viewer. The original
VNC tools accept this format for ages. That is they make the server
optional rather than the port.

Note that VNC is very insecure so there is not much point in
connecting to multiple remote servers but it makes sense to connect to
multiple local servers (or multiple local tunnels to remote hosts).

Thanks

Michal