
I would just run upstairs and type in what I wanted,then copy the characters and paste them if I needed to use them again. Also I couldn't type some characters in from my windows machine - ex: ) and (. I had to disable encryption to get it to work, no biggie since there is only the two computers on my home network and I'm behind my router and a switch. There have been a couple of minor annoyances with tightvnc. The file size of the latest downloadable installation package is 12 KB. The program is included in System Utilities. The following versions: 6.20, 6.2 and 6.1 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. The actual developer of the free software is RealVNC Ltd. Every few minutes I had to run up to my fedora machine and let google know I didn't want to get kicked off. Download VNC Viewer from our software library for free.

I read some reviews that had me worried they might try to accuse me of using their software for commercial purposes (nope), but at the very least I wasn't so sure if I wanted them to monitor me so closely. Its an improved version of the standard VNC protocol. ThinVNC is a web remote access client (browser-based, HTML5). I tried teamviewer and it worked fine for a couple of months, then I couldn't connect. Download ThinVNC - Web Remote Desktop for free.

Relatively speaking, this is the best remote desktop tool I've found so far! I just wanted something to remote into my linux fedora machine in our room upstairs from my downstairs windows machine (wife sleeps later than I do).
