On Saturday 24 August 2002 9:09 pm, Art Fore wrote:
I setup VNC server on one machine and VNC view on the other through NFS TCP/IP network. Can get the VNC viewer to connect, but all I get is a black screen. The appears to be because VNC server is working with display 1 when I need it to work with display 0. That is, I want to see the same display on my computer that is on the other. Does anyone know how to set this up?
Art
Hello Art, When you start a VNC server, you are starting an(other) instance of an X server. In your ~/.vnc directory, a file called xstartup needs to exist to start your window manager and any apps. It is correct that it would be on display :1 in this case. Subsequent VNC servers would be on :2, :3, ..., :N. On a Windows machine, starting a VNC server actually does use the existing display, but this is not the case in Linux. Now, in theory, is it possible in Linux to start the VNC server instead of some other X server on display :0? Of that I'm not certain (but I doubt it). What I typically do is run some minimal window manager on display :0 and immediately fire up a VNC server and do all of my work in there. Its not quite what you reqeusted, but perhaps it will suffice. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org