TigerVNC/tigervnc

Different server profiles in viewer

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#153 opened on Mar 17, 2015

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Description

In the past few days I'm pretty much enjoying TigerVNC, it's working splendidly. However, I do find it rather tedious having to constantly reconnect and copy/paste my (extremely long) password. Since I'm using VNC to maintain and configure a remote machine through frequent reboots, reconnecting has become a slight chore.

It would be wonderful if TigerVNC simply reconnected after losing connection, and didn't request the password each time it does.

It takes about 20 seconds to reboot the remote machine before the VNC server becomes available again, so a 10 second retry would seem a reasonable hammer, after an initial immediate reconnect attempt.

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Research direction
Explore the viewer's connection handling code to understand how connections are established and how authentication credentials are stored. Investigate the possibility of storing the password in a secure manner and implementing a retry timer after disconnection.
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cpp
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desktop
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