[gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

[Kris Kerwin]

Hi all,

I'm using TightVNC v 1.2.9-r1 from the Gentoo Portage tree. I have two 
questions about running it.

1) I would like my local machine to share the same display as is 
exported to remote machines via VNC. 

The easiest way to do this would simply be to run a VNC server on the 
local machine and then connect to it using a VNC client on the local 
machine, the same as if I were connecting from a remote machine. 
However, I'm concerned that there will be both speed and image 
quality losses. Also, I can't seem to get kdm to run inside VNC by 
adding it to root's ~/.vnc/xstartup file.

What sorts of strategies do you have to make this happen? Is there any 
way to have VNC export a display that is already being served by an X 
server? Or, is there any way that an X Client can connect to an X 
server that is the slave of a VNC process?

2) I'm noticing some problems with resolution on the client-side. I 
simply can't fit the entire desktop onto the screen. Playing with the 
-geometry option fixes this problem, but leaves me with massive 
windows that don't fit on the screen. Any ideas here?

Thanks,
Kris Kerwin
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