Re: [gentoo-user] vnc.so

[Tom Smith]

I understand how vnc.so works. I was trying to determine where to find 
documentation for it, so I asked the more general question of which 
package it came with. After more research (and a response received on 
this list) I learned it is part of RealVNC.

What I was looking to do is provide additional configuration option for 
X.org but couldn't do this until I knew where to find the docs--now I 
do. So I just need to play with it to try and improve performance--I've 
noticed (just recently) that performance over a VPN tunnel is quite slow 
when compared to a LAN (I know, this is pretty obvious). What's odd, 
though, is that performance is MUCH worse VNC-ing to my Gentoo server on 
port :0 then it is on port :1, for example. Puzzling... Anyone have 
ideas as to how I can improve this aspect of vnc.so?

~ Tom

BTW... To enable the VNC password, add the following line to 'Section 
"Screen" ' of xorg.conf: Option "PasswordFile" "/path/to/.vnc/passwd". 
Usually, you have to add a "noauth" option in order to disable password 
authentication--this is the option I chose since one would have to 
authenticate via XDM and I use xlock/xautolock to secure the logged in 
session.

Statux wrote:

>After you get X to start with the vnc module as you have, you just use a
>vnc viewing program (RealVNC is common). I typically connect to this
>system from another Windows box on the LAN but I have done Linux to
>Linux (vncviewer) with a system several states away. There's also a way
>to set a password but I forget how I did that. I remember setting it as
>root since the X server starts as root. There a command that comes with
>the client portion of vnc, I think. Poke around.
>
>To others reading this thread, only the newer branch of the vnc project
>(version 4, I think) has the vnc server module support. Looking at
>things, I see that version 4 is now marked stable (it wasn't when I
>installed it on two systems).
>
>Just a word of caution, if you connect to your own box you'll probably
>end up with some wacky stuff when you move your mouse, etc. It took me a
>while to understand that this is actually the mirror in a mirror issue.
>Once I connected from another system, things looked better :)
>
>On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:39 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>I installed "vnc" with the "server" USE flag enabled. I've been working
>>on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working.
>>My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program?
>>(I tried to locate a description of the use flags for VNC but was unable
>>to.)
>>
>>Thanks in advance for the help.
>>
>>~ Tom
>>
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