Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/5/18 11:57 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:07:28 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: Type=simple ... Replace thus: ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -autokill %i by: ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -fg %i -autokill is useless with -fg Thank you. I will review

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:07:28 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Type=simple ... >> Replace thus: >>ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -autokill %i >> by: >>ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -fg %i >> -autokill is useless with -fg > Thank you. I will review this. > I updated bug 1633805 >

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-05 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/5/18 1:58 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:42:16 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Can you try to set Type to simple and thus get rid of the pid stuff. So try: [Service] Type=simple WorkingDirectory=/home/rgm User=rgm Group=rgm PAMName=login

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-04 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 07:42:16 +0200 francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > Can you try to set Type to simple and thus get rid of the pid stuff. > So try: > [Service] > Type=simple > WorkingDirectory=/home/rgm > User=rgm > Group=rgm > PAMName=login > ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/vncserver

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-04 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:10:54 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 9/30/18 2:56 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >> Hi >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/30/18 2:56 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome. I think that adding the following in the vncserver@.service and/or

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 10/1/18 9:34 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome. .. Is this documented anywhere, ideally in a bug report?

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-10-01 Thread Rex Dieter
francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > Hi > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>> It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than >>> gnome. .. >> Is this documented anywhere, ideally in a bug report? > > I don't know.

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-30 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:35:06 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 9/30/18 2:56 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: >> PAMName=login >> UtmpIdentifier=%I >> UtmpMode=user > where are those 3 variables defined and documented?

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-30 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/30/18 2:56 AM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome. I think that adding the following in the vncserver@.service and/or

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-30 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:32:43 -0500 Rex Dieter wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than >> gnome. I think that adding the following in the vncserver@.service and/or xvnc@.service, in the [service] section, may solve that

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-27 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than > gnome. Is this documented anywhere, ideally in a bug report? -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

VNCserver seems to be working - Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-27 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Per the instructions from the Fedoraforum.  Took a bit, but I am mounting USB drive.  Polkit is prompting me for my password and that lets me mount the drive.  Probably because I am in group wheel. So call is off for alternative to vnc and to remember how to do it with SysV.  I am staying

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-27 Thread D
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:25:45 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than > gnome.  Definitely not Xfce that I use.  The work around is nasty:  > Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably > can do it better

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-27 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mer, 26/09/2018 alle 10.25 -0400, Robert Moskowitz ha scritto: > So it is time to look at the alternatives. Xpra ? https://www.xpra.org/ Xpra is an open-source multi-platform persistent remote display server and client for forwarding applications and desktop screens. It gives you

Re: VNCserver seems to be working - Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/27/18 9:28 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Per the instructions from the Fedoraforum.  Took a bit, but I am mounting USB > drive.  Polkit is prompting me for my password and that lets me mount the > drive.  > Probably because I am in group wheel. > > So call is off for alternative to vnc and

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/26/18 4:37 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 9/26/18 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome. Definitely not Xfce that I use.  The work around is nasty:  Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 9/26/18 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome.  > Definitely not Xfce that I use.  The work around is nasty:  Connect via SSH > and run > vncserver from the command line. But probably can do it better via SCREEN and >

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 9/26/18 7:25 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome.  Definitely not Xfce that I use.  The work around is nasty: Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably can do it better via SCREEN and just forget

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/26/18 12:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:25:45 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: So can I have a bit of help in figuring out what to replace my decades-old connection to VNC? I use x2go, but it operates in a completely different fashion from VNC (and I don't think it can

Re: VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:25:45 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > So can I have a bit of help in figuring out what to replace my > decades-old connection to VNC? I use x2go, but it operates in a completely different fashion from VNC (and I don't think it can allow you to share the physical screen,

VNC alternatives

2018-09-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
It seems Tiger-vncserver is broken WRT polkit for any spin other than gnome.  Definitely not Xfce that I use.  The work around is nasty:  Connect via SSH and run vncserver from the command line. But probably can do it better via SCREEN and just forget about that screen session... So it is