austp/gitso

Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen.

#Gitso

Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections. It is meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another's screen.

Original Project is kept at: https://code.google.com/p/gitso/

Few changes that I've made:

• Minimization now minimizes to the task tray
• When using the command line switch --listen, Gitso starts minimized
• Can now specify which port to listen on. --listen {PORT}

##Building Gitso ####Windows In the src folder you will find instructions on how to build Gitso on Windows along with installation files. You may have to change some paths in makegitso.bat depending on your installation.

####Mac These instructions have been taken from https://code.google.com/p/gitso/wiki/BuildOSX

1. Install Developer Tools (Xcode) from the OS X System CD
2. Install py2app
3. From the command line type:
4. curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
5. sudo python ez_setup.py -U setuptools
6. sudo easy_install -U py2app
7. Update hosts.txt to have preset options for the client. Hosts are comma separated and optional.
8. Run: ./makegitso.sh

####Linux These instructions have been taken from https://code.google.com/p/gitso/wiki/BuildLinux

Non Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE Users

Gitso requires the following files so make sure to install them:

• x11vnc
• vncviewer
• wxPython

Fedora Users

1. yum install subversion
2. yum install rpmdevtools

Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE Users

1. Update hosts.txt to have preset options for the client. Hosts are comma separated and optional.
2. Run: ./makegitso.sh [--source, --opensuse, --fedora]

##Disclaimer I really have no desire to maintain this project, as it's not mine to begin with. I was looking for something like Gitso but it didn't quite have what I wanted. After making my changes I thought I might as well put this up on GitHub for others who wanted something similar. So if you have issues, you're better off forking the project and fixing them yourself.

gitso's Issues

Gitso Maintainer

Hello,

after searching for a long time, I'm happy to notice that the Gitso project has a new maintainer.
Thanks to Florian Schlichting for his time on Gitso package for Debian.
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gitso

Olivier

Display buttons on Ubuntu 18.04

Hi,
With Ubuntu 18.04 on xfce, buttons are hidden quite totally, only top edge of them are displaying. To get them back, I change the code of /usr/share/gitso/ConnectionWindow.py for (line 57)

if re.match('(?:open|free|net)bsd|linux',sys.platform):
width = 250
height = 350
xval1 = 155
xval2 = 250
else:
height = 350
width = 250
xval1 = 180
xval2 = 265

and it works well.
Gitso is great, love this piece of software. Thanks to maintain it.