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On Saturday, 24 February 2007 23:08, Gyuszk wrote: |
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> Dear Gentoo users, |
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> I'm having VNC-related problems. |
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> I want to make VNC'ing work the following: |
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> I have a Gentoo desktop box with gdm+gnome, only one user. I'm using X |
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> on DISPLAY:0 0-24/7 all the time. If I'm not sitting in front of the |
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> box, I lock the session with the corresponding Gnome menu. So, X |
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> DISPLAY:0 is always active with my Gnome desktop (sometimes locked, |
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> thats all). |
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> I have another machine with Windows XP. (Just on a little partition, I |
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> want to install Linux on the remaining 70GB.) |
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> >From this machine I want to connect using VNC to the gentoo desktop. |
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> I've read the corresponding howtos on gentoo-wiki.org, with no success. |
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> What works: I can connect to the Gentoo box using VNC, but it opens |
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> DISPLAY:1 and starts an X session with TWM, instead of opening my |
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> existing X session on DISPLAY:0 |
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> All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing |
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> DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible? |
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> If isn't, the following will do: |
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> a GDM session opens in my VNC window, and I can login to my account into |
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> gnome. With existing user, with existing home folder. |
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> I hope I was clear. Sorry for my English, I'm from Hungary. |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> Gyuszk |
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You can use x11-misc/x11vnc to view an existing X session over vnc. |
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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck |
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