x0vncserver

Hi all,

Has anyone got this running on their AA1?
Would you care to share the steps needed to install, configure and get running and let me know if it works as desribed giving VNC to Display:0...?

http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4. ... erver.html

Thanks, Rich

 

Can no one help??? PLEASE!!!!

R

 

Usually on Fedora, one does

sudo yum -y install tightvnc

Then, type

vncserver

It will have you create a password.
It will, however, run on display 1, not display 0. I've never tried forcing it to run on display 0, but I suspect it might cause problems.

(Not tested though.)

If display :1 is already in use, it will start on display :2, etc.

(I didn't take a look at the link--in general, if there's an rpm for something, you're better off using it than a third party program--not always, but I haven't seen enough difference between realvnc and tightvnc.)

 

Hi, thanks for the reply. I've gotten realvnc to work no problems, but as you say only on display >=1 and not the ellusive :0 that is so desperately need. I am hoping someone, somewhere has gotten this to work on the AA1???

R

 

Looking at your other post, it seems that what you need is for two people to view the same screen simultaneously. (I saw that other one by chance--it is sometimes a bad idea to have multiple threads for the same, more or less, purpose.)

Also, had you stated in your original post that the reason you want :0 is to be able to view the screen at the same time as someone else, I could have given you a better answer on the 28th, when you first posted.

(Just tips for the future, don't take them as criticism, just a comment from an old guy whose been on various forums for awhile and made the same mistakes.)

Anyway, AFAIK, the only way you're going to be able to do this (although we haven't tried any other way, since where I work, this way works for us) is to have both people logging into the VNC session on :1. That is, from your computer, you make a VNC connection on :1. Then, the other person, also on a separate computer, makes a vnc connection on :1. Then, you will be able to see what the other person is doing.

I don't know if there's a way in Linux--seems as if there may not be, but I AM NOT SURE OF THAT, so don't take it as definite truth--for one person to sit at the machine and the other to watch his session through VNC.

 

x11vnc is a similar beast ...

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/

I've not used it but here's a guy's blog that gives a basic howto ...

http://fox2mike.livejournal.com/151289.html

Do a google on x11vnc and you might find more examples to get you started. It seems that info on using X0vncserver isn't easy to find. All I can ascertain about it, is that it needs to be loaded by the X server, ie. edits to xorg.conf to get it to work. Maybe x11vnc doesn't require this? I don't know as I don't use vnc. I simply use ssh to get to remote boxes and work on them.

Cheers.

Added: some more details on using x11vnc ...
http://www.musicinfo.org/node/88

 

Thanks for the tips on X11vnc - will give that ago. Hopefully I can get it working.

R

ps - cross posting was trying to get some info from the experienced side of the forum, not sure if they checked the begineers threads - appologies!

 

That makes sense, but I think that more than looking at each individual forum, what happens is that people (at least most of them) log on and look for new posts...
Another possible thing to do (since your logic does make sense, depending upon how you think people browse the forum) is mention in post 2 that you've posted about this in post one but haven't gotten an answer.

I repeat, don't take what I said as criticism, just a suggestion that can be followed or ignored as you wish.

 

Hi,

Thanks for the thought - no criticism taken at all. Agree that I should have posted that it was linked in another forum!
On a good note though - I think one of my other posts has been answered and :0 can work

R

 

Try vino instead. Once installed, run /usr/bin/vino-preferences, then start the server with /usr/libexec/vino-server. Then, you'll be able to VNC into display :0.

This seems to be less resource intensive.