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I'm running vncserver on a box on our lan and I can connect to it only as display 2 as a blank X screen. But I want to be able to see what is actually being displayed on the screen on the server. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steve.
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On Saturday 31 May 2003 13:47, fsanta wrote:
I'm running vncserver on a box on our lan and I can connect to it only as display 2 as a blank X screen. But I want to be able to see what is actually being displayed on the screen on the server. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steve.
Nothing. That's how VNC server works. If you want to see your active desktop you need to use a different server program. I use x0rbserver which does what you want. Something doesn't seem to reliable about it, but I suspect the Windows client at the other end in my case. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003
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On Saturday 31 May 2003 13:47, fsanta wrote:
I'm running vncserver on a box on our lan and I can connect to it only as display 2 as a blank X screen. But I want to be able to see what is actually being displayed on the screen on the server. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steve.
Nothing. That's how VNC server works. If you want to see your active desktop you need to use a different server program. I use x0rbserver which does what you want. Something doesn't seem to reliable about it, but I suspect the Windows client at the other end in my case.
You can run another instance of your WM and use that if you want: /usr/local/bin/Xvnc :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -alwaysshared -rfbauth & export DISPLAY=:1.0 /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde & Josh
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but I suspect the Windows client at the other end in my case.
You can run another instance of your WM and use that if you want:
/usr/local/bin/Xvnc :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 16 -alwaysshared -rfbauth & export DISPLAY=:1.0 /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde &
Josh
Or you can use the Destop Sharing feature built into V.8.2 to share your current desktop. Ken
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On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:35, fsanta wrote:
Or you can use the Destop Sharing feature built into V.8.2 to share your current desktop.
Ken
Hi. Can't find it anywhere. Can you point me at it? Cheers, Steve.
Kmenu-->Internet-->Tools-->Desktop Sharing Ken
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