A wrapper around xvncviewer and it's kin to handle RFC-7869 style URIs
vnc_launcher will will process a vnc:// style URI, and launch a vnc-client based upon it. Notably, it will handle login credentials in the URI, a feature lacking in many VNC clients.
The VNC protocol itself doesn't have a username, if vnc_launcher encounters a username in the URI it will be ignored.
- Python 2.6+ or Python 3.6+
- PyCrypto
- An Xvnc compatible vncviewer program
cp vnc_launcher /somewhere/in/your/path
chmod a+x /somewhere/in/your/pathIf you're missing the PyCrypto library run
pip install pycryptoMost modern desktop environments can be configured for automatic handling of the VNC protocol by running the commands below.
cp vnc_launcher.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications
xdg-mime default vnc_launcher.desktop x-scheme-handler/vnc
# Thanks
Thanks to James Cuzella, and his vncpasswd.py project which provided insight
into the password encoding mechanism used here.Probably.
Copyright (c) 2018 Stephen Kacsmark