From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 22:50:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C35CF16A417 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5557213C461 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:50:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman.uk@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so780673hub for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:50:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=Qx+GIoBpkua7Pa7p33OYE6MwZy5DCBd65a7IHUL7hBSZRatOGJIohIUVVND2scXtZwHPCEH5mqXOKA7n/bFKgf+zRv2xYR6gu/tgxP9o+Nrcxht3XwLwew1OEWwQFxhZuA2fyyhhE2PWObtUWgMN1vOpWn6ZK0qtq+ywtTSCW7Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=B3YGJW4PnRpZ2yL3+BzeB01fIhw2bdKYpLr+PDf7JUpzgmmRR41BjDLcsTZx0rLcRWu1eedxeo1rFJUNLqFCPc8FMkVSon3SdzhHSvpClMVhp8rrp4ViqHTHEuEgA0fLFsx+FL9nUKRDhmVecCHSoVY7bj44I+k2vmsjTP8CUxk= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr4754853ugh.1185749444705; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monju-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com ( [86.18.88.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i3sm2130856nfh.2007.07.29.15.50.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:50:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46AD19C1.7010409@crackmonkey.us> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:50:41 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: FreeBSD Questions References: <46AA0BD8.3030804@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <46AA0BD8.3030804@crackmonkey.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Adam J Richardson Subject: Xvnc success! But Xfce4 settings different X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:50:46 -0000 Adam J Richardson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use VNC to log into my FreeBSD laptop from another laptop > [why? to learn how]... gdm... Xvnc... xinetd... blah... blah... I finally managed to log in using Xvnc and gdm. This is awesome. I'll be happy for days now. :D Here's how: I found I was getting lots of weird file descriptor errors in /var/log/messages. Google tells me it's some subtle bug involving 6.2-RELEASE and xinetd. So I switched to inetd [note, no 'x'] and it worked perfectly first time. There is a tiny fly in my happy ointment though. My Xfce4 settings appear to be different. Usually I use gnome-panel when I log in locally. My remote login is using xfce4-panel. Rather than go through setting up my desktop how I like it /again/, I would prefer to figure out why my local settings aren't being used. Probably a good symlinking would fix this, but I can't quite see what I should be linking to where. Any ideas? TiA, Adam J Richardson