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!
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)
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)
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)
RIDOGI There seems to be a bug that when clicking without any keys produces the effect of holding either command or control. So sometimes every click I make brings up a contextual menu (or a dock menu if I am launching an app from the dock), and sometimes clicking on an app in the dock opens the app's enclosing folder.
This is for a mac --> mac connection, and I don't have any of the universal access options turned on such as sticky keys. (Version 2.0b4)
TEREVOS Excellent. A much needed improvement over 2.0b3. (I had been using UltraVNC Server for the PCs at work - so I was not able to use the previous version because of the bug)
This version is noticeably faster than previous versions. It rivals UltraVNC Client on Windows.
More options - less buggy. Works great.
It could use a little improvement on the interface, but it's pretty good as it is. (Version 2.0b4)
IONYZ Haha, OK. I was wondering why URLs I was copying were losing characters. "HTTP" became "HTP", etc. Didn't notice till recently as I was using an older version. But anyway great application, and congrats on releasing a universal version. (Version 2.0b4)