MultiVNC is a cross-platform Multicast-enabled VNC viewer using wxWidgets and libvncclient. It runs on Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. There also is an Android version.

Both the desktop and the mobile version feature:

• Support for most encodings including Tight.
• Discovery of VNC servers advertising themselves via ZeroConf.
• Bookmarks.

The desktop version stands out with additional features such as:

• MulticastVNC ;-)
• Several connections with one viewer using tabs.
• Listen mode (Reverse VNC). Via tabs it's possible to listen for and serve multiple incoming connections.
• Window sharing: You can beam one of your windows to the remote side if they support receiving windows (run a listening viewer).
• Seamless control of the remote side by moving pointer over the (default upper) screen edge. Borrows heavily from x2vnc by Fredrik Hübinette [email protected], which in turn was based on ideas from x2x and code from vncviewer.
• Simple, loggable statistics
• Supports server framebuffer resize.

The mobile Android version sports:

• Virtual mouse button controls with haptic feedback.
• Two-finger swipe gesture recognition.
• A super fast touchpad mode for local use.
• Hardware-accelerated OpenGL drawing and zooming.
• Copy&paste to and from Android.
• Availability from both Google Play and F-Droid.

For features that are planned, but not completed yet, look at the TODO file.

How to get prebuilt packages

Prereleases

These are automatically built from the current master branch and contain cutting edge features and bug fixes.

• MultiVNC for MacOS prerelease
• MultiVNC (64bit) for Debian prerelease

Releases

• MultiVNC for Android is available from Google Play and F-Droid.
• MultiVNC 0.5 (64bit) for Debian
• MultiVNC 0.5 (64bit) for Fedora/Redhat
• MultiVNC 0.5 (32bit) for Microsoft Windows

How to compile the desktop wxWidgets version from source

The prerequisites:

• the usual c-compiler with headers and stuff
• wxWidgets dev package version >= 3.0
• zlib dev package
• libjpeg dev package

After cloning the repo, do

   git submodule init
   git submodule update

To compile:

   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   cmake --build .

And cross fingers...

To install:

• make install as root
• or copy binary wherever you like to

That's pretty much it, have fun!

MulticastVNC notes

You can get a modified libvncserver/libvncclient at https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/tree/multicastvnc - this is the same library that MultiVNC uses internally.