Download TightVNC 2.8.27

There are several programs to control computers remotely. TightVNC is one such program and, as the name implies, it uses VNC . ‘Tight’ refers to the use of compression, which means that the program also performs well over slow connections. TightVNC is suitable for Windows 2000 and above, Windows 9x / NT and Linux users can use version 1.3.10 . In version 2.8.27 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Server for Windows:

• Fixed server crash on changing window size when sharing one particular window with -sharewindow option (sf bug # 1475).
• Fixed problems with generating incorrect symbols with certain national keyboard layouts, eg when pressing “3” in Turkish layout and “6” in Portuguese Brazilian ABNT2 layout (sf bugs # 1482, # 1458).
• Fixed problem with sending black screen when a viewer requests 16-bit or 8-bit colors with big-endian byte order (sf bug # 1473).
• Fixed an issue with mouse cursor jumping to the top left corner of the screen on requesting full screen update.

Viewer for Windows:

• Added support of Romanian diacritical marks.
• Fixed a problem of adding extra null character when transferring text data from clipboard (sf bug # 1485).
• Fixed incorrect handling of the -mousecursor command-line option (sf bug # 1457).