From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 2 14: 1: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.anu.edu.au (mail.anu.edu.au [150.203.2.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F1537B419 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:01:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nucl03.anu.edu.au (nucl03.anu.edu.au [150.203.19.120]) by mail.anu.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24381; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:01:03 +1100 (EST) Received: (from gjl103@localhost) by nucl03.anu.edu.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB2M0XP18918; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:00:33 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gjl103) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:00:33 +1100 From: Greg Lane To: Totally Jayyness Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Questions in regards to VNC, remote management tool. Message-ID: <20011203090033.A18865@nucl03.anu.edu.au> Mail-Followup-To: Totally Jayyness , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c17b73$a54d8120$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>; from Jayyness@mindspring.com on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:55:16PM -0700 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 > Anyway, my question is, you CAN use VNC to view your Xdesktop if you have it > installed and running correctly, correct? Absolutely. I use it all the time so that all the people stuck with Windows can use it to access my FreeBSD machine for data analysis at work. > I log in with VNC again, am at command line... run startx but I don't think > my Xserver is set up right. This confused me a bit. I don't think VNC ever brings up a command line mode. Perhaps you are mistaking the default window manager twm with command line mode? Before mucking around with vnc, sit at your box and get X running properly. When it is running, try vnc. You will need to edit the .vnc/xstartup file to bring up the window manager of your choice. Here is mine: --------------------- #!/bin/sh export XAUTHORITY=/home/username/.Xauthority icewm --------------------- set up to run icewm. You will have to edit accordingly to make it run KDE. I had to export .Xauthority at some point for some reason. Can't remember why now. If you are trying to get remote access over a slow line you might consider running a very plain desktop with minimal eye-candy. Over an ethernet network, go for broke. Hope this helps, Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message