From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 2 13:27:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A993237B405 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:27:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2LRli37907; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:27:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:27:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Totally Jayyness Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions in regards to VNC, remote management tool. Message-ID: <20011202212746.GA41601@dan.emsphone.com> References: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 02), Totally Jayyness said: > I am pretty familiar with VNC on the M$ 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