README
   GTK VNC  Readme
   ===============

gtk-vnc is a project providing client side APIs for the
RFB protocol / VNC remote desktop technology.

It is built using coroutines allowing it to be completely
asynchronous while remaining single threaded. It provides
two core C libraries, libgvnc for interacting with the core
RFB protocol and libgtk-vnc for a GTK display widget.

There is a traditional Python binding built on PyGTK, and
evolving support for arbitrary languages via the GObject
Introspection system.

For information about the project visit the webpage at:

  https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gtk-vnc

To contact developers use the project mailing list at:

  http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-vnc-list

To browse or report bugs, go to our bugzilla page at:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gtk-vnc


Installation notes
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 * GTK2/GTK3: The build currently defaults to using GTK2.
   To enable GTK3 support the flag '--with-gtk=3.0' must
   be passed to configure.

         ./configure --with-gtk=3.0

   Notes on GTK3 support:

    - The traditional python bindings are disabled when GTK3
      is used. Applications should use the GObject introspection
      bindings instead.

    - When built against GTK3, the library name for gtk-vnc
      will become 'gtk-vnc-2.0.so' and the pkg-config file will
      also be 'gtk-vnc-2.0'.

    - The gvnc library is unaffected by GTK2/GTK3 build
      since it only depends on GLib/GIO

 * NetBSD: You must run configure using

    --with-coroutine=gthread

   since any app linking against NetBSD's libpthread.so is
   forbidden from using swapcontext() calls, which is gtk-vnc's
   default coroutine impl. For further information see

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566148
    http://man.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pthread++NetBSD-current

 * MinGW: The SASL protocol extension is not available on
   this platform


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