Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:27:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Totally Jayyness <Jayyness@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions in regards to VNC, remote management tool. Message-ID: <20011202212746.GA41601@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> References: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 02), Totally Jayyness said: > I am pretty familiar with VNC on the M$ side of things... > > I log in with VNC again, am at command line... run startx but I don't > think my Xserver is set up right. > > Anyway, my question is, you CAN use VNC to view your Xdesktop if you > have it installed and running correctly, correct? Not exactly. The Unix VNC client is really its own xserver. You run "vncserver" and it creates an X screen visible only via vncviewer. If you run vncserver twice, you get two desktops, on :1 and :2 (usually). I don't think there's a way to export an existing X session via VNC. Think of VNC as "screen" for X. You can't access an existing X sesion via VNC, just like you can't access a preexisting TTY login via screen. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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