[gentoo-user] VNC problems

[gentoo-user] VNC problems

[Gyuszk]

Dear Gentoo users,

I'm having VNC-related problems.
I want to make VNC'ing work the following:

I have a Gentoo desktop box with gdm+gnome, only one user. I'm using X
on DISPLAY:0 0-24/7 all the time. If I'm not sitting in front of the
box, I lock the session with the corresponding Gnome menu. So, X
DISPLAY:0 is always active with my Gnome desktop (sometimes locked,
thats all).

I have another machine with Windows XP. (Just on a little partition, I
want to install Linux on the remaining 70GB.)
>From this machine I want to connect using VNC to the gentoo desktop.
I've read the corresponding howtos on gentoo-wiki.org, with no success.
What works: I can connect to the Gentoo box using VNC, but it opens
DISPLAY:1 and starts an X session with TWM, instead of opening my
existing X session on DISPLAY:0

All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing
DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible?
If isn't, the following will do:

a GDM session opens in my VNC window, and I can login to my account into
gnome. With existing user, with existing home folder.

I hope I was clear. Sorry for my English, I'm from Hungary.

Thanks in advance!

Gyuszk

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Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 13:38 +0100, Gyuszk wrote:
> All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing
> DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible?
> If isn't, the following will do: 

VNC server *always*[1] creates a new X server to export.  It doesn't
export the (X) console.

If you're using GNOME, why not use GNOME's solution:
System/Preferences/Remote Desktop?

1. Well not always, but that's the default.


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Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Saturday, 24 February 2007 23:08, Gyuszk wrote:
> Dear Gentoo users,
>
> I'm having VNC-related problems.
> I want to make VNC'ing work the following:
>
> I have a Gentoo desktop box with gdm+gnome, only one user. I'm using X
> on DISPLAY:0 0-24/7 all the time. If I'm not sitting in front of the
> box, I lock the session with the corresponding Gnome menu. So, X
> DISPLAY:0 is always active with my Gnome desktop (sometimes locked,
> thats all).
>
> I have another machine with Windows XP. (Just on a little partition, I
> want to install Linux on the remaining 70GB.)
>
> >From this machine I want to connect using VNC to the gentoo desktop.
>
> I've read the corresponding howtos on gentoo-wiki.org, with no success.
> What works: I can connect to the Gentoo box using VNC, but it opens
> DISPLAY:1 and starts an X session with TWM, instead of opening my
> existing X session on DISPLAY:0
>
> All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing
> DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible?
> If isn't, the following will do:
>
> a GDM session opens in my VNC window, and I can login to my account into
> gnome. With existing user, with existing home folder.
>
> I hope I was clear. Sorry for my English, I'm from Hungary.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Gyuszk

You can use x11-misc/x11vnc to view an existing X session over vnc.

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Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:38, Gyuszk wrote:

> All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing
> DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible?

I think you need a VNC server that allows connections to display :0 (eg, 
the "real" display).
Portage offers x11vnc and xf4vnc to do that. Also, back in the XFree86 
days, the standard realvnc server used to provide a x0vncserver or a X 
module to enable viewing the real X display. I never used it and don't 
know whether it still works that way with xorg. More info here:

http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html

hth
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Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems

[Gyuszk]

Etaoin Shrdlu írta:
> On Saturday 24 February 2007 13:38, Gyuszk wrote:
>
>   
>> All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing
>> DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible?
>>     
>
> I think you need a VNC server that allows connections to display :0 (eg, 
> the "real" display).
> Portage offers x11vnc and xf4vnc to do that. Also, back in the XFree86 
> days, the standard realvnc server used to provide a x0vncserver or a X 
> module to enable viewing the real X display. I never used it and don't 
> know whether it still works that way with xorg. More info here:
>
> http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html
>
> hth
>   
Thanks a lot guys, I'll write to the thread when tried everything.
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