Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:06:59 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: scott@sremick.net Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restarting vino remotely? Message-ID: <1137514019.19291.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <17129pal9kyo$.al7nkbay2qq0$.dlg@40tude.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:36 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Good morning... for some reason, vino is not currently running on my home > PC (I suspect a portmanager update killed it and it did not restart). Xorg > and Gnome are still running however (I have an X desktop going on the local > machine at home). I can still ssh in just fine, but I've never solved the > mystery on how to restart vino-session remotely without it kicking errors. > It always seems to want to be launched from a terminal session on the local > PC console. Is there a trick to this? > > To be clear: I'm not trying to forward X sessions over ssh. I forward VNC > over ssh using vino as the VNC server. This works better for my needs. > > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE > Gnome 2.12.2 > Vino 2.12.0 > Xorg 6.8.2 > > Any suggestions? It won't work unless you've done an xhost + on your console, but you can try setting your DISPLAY to :0.0, then running vino. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDzRYjb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgHsAJwPkGA70acCVsyaMR24YThNfSzW7gCfQNOn jaxf4HhryVuXsG0pZFsIQqY= =BUmn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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