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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.


Developer:Geekspiff
Downloads:107,821
  - Version d/l:64,389
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
May 3 2008
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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
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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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