Damon Register wrote:
Lester Caine wrote:
Windows machines, a simple enable and the linux machines are there as well.
It is amazing just how much functionality is available 'out of the box'. It far outdoes WindowsXP ;)
The problem is that this seems to be a very recent development. In trying to find that kdenetwork3-vnc that a few mentioned earlier it appears in a more recent kde than is with SuSE 8.0. I am not an expert here but I suspect that one cannot take a module from one version of kde and stick it into an older one. Therefore I would likely have to upgrade kde which seems like a difficult task. From all of the kde upgrade discussions I have seen here in the past, I don't think I want to tackle that. While it might very well outdo XP out of the box, I am still disappointed that it took so long to get to a point that has existed in Windows for years.
Even though my SuSE 9.0 may arrive soon and this issue might be overcome by events, I can't accept being beaten so I will pursue this. It seems that xf4vnc is the only hope for older kde that doesn't have kdenetwork3-vnc. If anyone has had experience with xf4vnc with display :0 on SuSE, I would like to hear from you.
Damon Register
Haven't tried it wit SuSE 9.0. This is what I had do to get it working on my laptop with SuSE 7.2 XFree4.2.0 kernel 2.4.18. Edit your "/etc/X11/XF86config" by adding the following lines: Add in the "Module" section the loading of the vnc module. --------------------------- Section "Module" .... Load "vnc" EndSection --------------------------- Now add the vnc keyboard and mouse as extra "Inputdevice". --------------------------- # Input devices for vnc session Section "InputDevice" Driver "rfbkeyb" Identifier "vncKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "rfbmouse" Identifier "vncMouse" EndSection --------------------------- Add the following lines in de "Device" section. These are the normal vnc options. --------------------------- Section "Device" ...... Option "rfbport" "5900" Option "dontdisconnect" Option "usevnc" EndSection --------------------------- Now add the vnc mouse and keyboard to the "serverLayout" section. --------------------------- Section "ServerLayout" ...... InputDevice "vncKeyboard" "ExtraKeyboard" InputDevice "vncMouse" "ExtraPointer" EndSection --------------------------- Your XF86config file is now setup. you still have to copy the vnc.o module into the "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" dir for X to see it. With XFree4.2.0 you have to replace the X driver in the "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers" dir with the driver of XF4VNC. This will break the 3D capability of your VGA card. With Xfree4.3.0 this is no longer needed. If I remember correctly. XF4VNC can use the tight compression of tightvnc project. This a VNC client and server from low bandwidth setups. XF4VNC has one drawback. Namely when you connect to the host you can no longer get to the text consol. Somehow it locks the X server. You need to restart X then. Hope this helps, Stefan. Hope this