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On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:06, Bob Rea wrote:
I am working on reaching my home box, SuSE 8.1, KDE 3.1.3, from my work box, Windows 2000 Pro, using VNC. I have managed to make the connection, but it uses twm. Should I replace twm in the script with kwm or startkde, or something else?
you can change the window manager vnc uses by editing your ~/.vnc/xstartup file. The last line in the file is the window manager it uses. yours should be something like 'twm &' (without the quotes of course). change the twm to kde or whatever you wish.
Second, this appears to start a new X session. Can I connect to the session already running? If so, how?
yes, when you run vncserver it does create a separate x-server (hence the reason to have to connect to :1 instead of :0 (which is the local instance of X) As for connecting to an existing X session, I'm not sure how to set that up. They have something in SuSE 8.2 where vnc will share an existing x-session, but you'd have to look into it.
Third, I can seem to find a reference for running VNC. I can start it, but how do I stop it? vncserver -kill <session>
<session> by default is ':1' if you are already running another instance of X. so your command line would look like $> vncserver -kill :1
All help and directions to the proper references would be appreciated.
if you really want to find out about how to use vncserver, type 'man vncserver' at the command prompt.
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