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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!
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0b4:
  • Chicken of the VNC is now a universal binary.
  • Resolved an issue that caused an "ZLibHex unknown subencoding" error when using ZRLE encoding to connect to an UltraVNC server.
  • Resolved an issue that caused pasting text to work incorrectly if the text contained repeating characters.
  • Bonjour server discovery now works properly when the server uses a non-standard port or display number.
  • Clicking an inactive connection window no longer passes that click through to the server.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Developer:Geekspiff
Downloads:136,460
  - Version d/l:93,028
Internet:Internet Utilities
License:Free
Date:18 Jan 2006
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****.

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Chicken of the VNC User Reviews (45 posts)Write A Review
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Jan 22 2010

RICHARD TAYTOR  Connected to a TightVNC server, I was seeing increasing latency, the input buffer growing faster than it shrinks. In CotV Preferences, pulling the "Frontmost Connection" slider down a notch or two solved the problem. Incidentally, CPU usage was not an issue.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Jan 21 2010
****.

DIGITAL FURY  It's a shame that Chicken of the VNC has not been updated for a while, but it is still working fine.

People disapointed with JollysFastVNC's new (expensive) pricing should consider Chicken of the VNC. I believe most people will find it good enough and a more sensible option.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Jan 1 2010

ZEIST  It's a shame this app hasn't seen any development since 2006, would be nice to see this app improved a bit.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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May 3 2008
**...

RENE SCHICKBAUER  Works ok with UtraVNC on the server side.

Does NOT work with the vmware server running on linux ("connection failed" while other vnc clients work)

Has major problems with "qemu -vnc" running on FreeBSD with experiencing (screen blanks at random intervals). I tried JollysFastVNC, wich worked fine for connecting to qemu.

Also, "Chicken of the VNC" still uses a "Display" type field to specify the destination port and calculates 5900+Display as the port number. Connecting to VNC-Servers on non-standard ports < 5900 is therefore not possible. Why not just let the user enter a port number???   
(Version 2.0b4)

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May 2 2008
*****

ISLANDMACMAN  Works well with my Macs. Thanks!  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Apr 3 2008

SICHIPS  I have been using this program for about a month now and it does work OK on my 17 inch MacBook-Pro running native under Leopard.

I have seen some situations where the window would not repaint while another VNC program did work fine.

I only have 1 enhancement request: Provide the auto scaling based on window size as another program provides!

I will probably keep both programs on my computer until this program has this feature.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Mar 3 2007

FAHLMAN  It's been over a year since this beta version of 2.0 was released. This is my favorite VNC viewer. I wonder if development is dead, it appears to be. Bummer.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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May 19 2006
****½

THREEDEE912  A simple and fast VNC client, with Bonjour support.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Feb 9 2006

QW3RTY  This is the error I get in Chicken of the VNC:

"Connection Terminated

The server closed the connection"

But I can still connect with Apple's Remote Desktop. After I restart the computer, I can connect with Chicken again.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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Feb 4 2006
****½

QW3RTY  This is a great program, but I'm having a problem. I'm connecting to a Windows 98 computer running TightVNC. This doesn't happen very often, but every once in a while I get dissconnected and am unable to reconnect. I can still connect with Apple's "Remote Desktop", so I know this is a bug with "Chicken of the VNC". The only way I've been able to fix this is to connect with Remote Desktop and restart the computer, I can then connect with Chicken.  
(Version 2.0b4)

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