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Opened Oct 07, 2019 by Stefan Agner@agners
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RFC: backend-vnc: initial commit

This adds basic VNC protocol support. This implementation does not support authentication and only supports raw encoding. The backend implements the VNC server protocol itself as it is fairly simple when only basic features are supported.

Our tests with RDP showed race conditions and interoperability issues between different RDP clients (and version). Due to the complexity of the RDP protocol and the involved library those issues are non- trivial to debug. Furthermore the RDP library seems to have a unstable API which breaks the Weston backend hard to maintain.

This implementation of the VNC (also known as RFB, remote framebuffer) protocol is very minimalistic and only supports raw frame. This makes it easier to maintain and less suspectable to bugs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner stefan@agner.ch

Edited Oct 09, 2019 by Stefan Agner

Check out, review, and merge locally

Step 1. Fetch and check out the branch for this merge request

git fetch "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/agners/weston.git" "rfc-vnc-support"
git checkout -b "agners/weston-rfc-vnc-support" FETCH_HEAD

Step 2. Review the changes locally

Step 3. Merge the branch and fix any conflicts that come up

git fetch origin
git checkout "origin/master"
git merge --no-ff "agners/weston-rfc-vnc-support"

Step 4. Push the result of the merge to GitLab

git push origin "master"

Note that pushing to GitLab requires write access to this repository.

Tip: You can also checkout merge requests locally by following these guidelines.

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Reference: wayland/weston!279