From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HKwcb-0004dW-FN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:07:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1OD6IPB029937; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:06:18 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1OD20r2025316 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:02:01 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so407846pyi for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:02:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=My9zUIxrojpnEI7sj3L/m+wV9e+nfTbYBSSCinmiGxaJkLBCyT2mS7G1/yvEv/ls+afL74iF+t8cmR9CV/11KMQ+gHOnO+IEMh/Ye2K9tYWgFTz/m77wSOYZmvq1q4B2uHsuUDNA2fQxKq+dpyo41jzR6hSvG47zhO9sthQyaXY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=PmEhP3bxrteEruqc6VlThf1tBvH670+OwbU5rV8MsigTL+VTcadtYo9nWDCuLfT+MEA+ugGYHnvk185xmbmBvnMXphotNcApHMw3lvMHEHjfsGGk+A05svriiU1MlvfJtWEQaHB3PUKWdSslGcndiDLXpXSoX3ME498KuTFVwak= Received: by 10.35.103.12 with SMTP id f12mr6740961pym.1172322120182; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:02:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from ymir ( [124.243.156.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x72sm2571159pyg.2007.02.24.05.01.59; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:02:00 -0800 (PST) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VNC problems Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:31:51 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45E031CA.7020609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45E031CA.7020609@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702242331.51696.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9544c802-3a64-4577-b771-8bc721c166e5 X-Archives-Hash: 8f31d9ec1aa3cfe0faf5ec071e29e84e 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. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list