How do I make x11vnc work with the Java VNC viewer applet in a web browser?
To have x11vnc serve up a Java VNC viewer applet to any web browsers that connect to it, run x11vnc with this option: -httpdir /path/to/the/java/classes/dir (this directory will contain the files index.vnc and, for example, VncViewer.jar) Note that libvncserver contains the TightVNC Java classes jar file for your convenience. (it is the file classes/VncViewer.jar in the source tree.) You will see output something like this: 14/05/2004 11:13:56 Autoprobing selected port 5900 14/05/2004 11:13:56 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5800 14/05/2004 11:13:56 URL http://walnut:5800 14/05/2004 11:13:56 screen setup finished. 14/05/2004 11:13:56 The VNC desktop is walnut:0 PORT=5900 then you can connect to that URL with any Java enabled browser. Feel free to customize the default index.vnc file in the classes directory. As of May/2005 the -http option will try to guess where the Java classes jar file is by looking in expected locations and ones relative to the x11vnc binary. Also note t
