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   1 Simple VNC terminal emulator (inspired by VncCommand)
   2
   3 We try to simulate a 'xterm', because we want to support:
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   5         - unicode
   6         - mouse
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   8 and xterm seems to be the best solution for that.
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  10 some code is inspired by: qemu, VncCommand, xterm, linux kernel, ...
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  12 libvncserver
  13 ============
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  15 LibVNCServer does not suppurt TLS currently. So we staically link to a
  16 patched versions on that library instead of using the debian shared
  17 libraries.
  18
  19 VNC Java Applet (for use in web based applications):
  20 ====================================================
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  22 We use patched VncViewer files (TigerVNC 1.1.0 sources):
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  24 http://www.tigervnc.com/
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  26 We sign the applet to make clipboard working.
  27
  28 Note: Newer tigervnc 1.2.0 always use a toplevel window, which
  29 make it basically useless as applet.
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  31 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3488166&group_id=254363&atid=1126849
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  33 I put patches for 1.2.0 to newtigerpatches subdir.
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  35 Note: javascript-events.patch requires JSObject, which is inside plugin.jar
  36 previously provided by sun-java-jdk. For wheezy/openjdk, we need to install
  37 package "icedtea-netx-common" which contains that file.
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  39 TODO:
  40 =====
  41
  42 Useful sources for terminal emulation:
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  44    xterm source: ctlseqs.txt
  45    http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm
  46    man 5 terminfo
  47    infocmp xterm
  48    man console_codes
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  50 Fonts:
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  52 we currently use fonts provided by the debian console-data package:
  53 see /usr/share/consolefonts/*
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  55 Only 8x16 fonts are supported
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  57 TODO contains a list of unimplemented things.