On 8/30/13, Gary Dale <garyd...@velcom.ca> wrote: > On 27/08/13 01:50 AM, Phi Debian wrote: >> I use debian and gnome since well the begining... >> I have it on many nodes, but specially on some server, where many guests >> run. >> I was on squeeze sine the begining of squeeze, and decided to try wheezy.
>> I can cope with the questionable gdm3 and all things around, but doing >> GUI on the rudimentary VGA is not the main purpose of this server, yet >> it worked, so no problem related with HW graphical board FW. >> >> I start a vnc server for my account (vnc4server), and do the setup of >> xstart the various way, the simplest being starting the gnome-session >> in there. >> >> Then right click on top-panel-->property, color setup plain solid, and >> kaboom, your vnc session is no longer available , oh no message >> anybody knows by now, goolge it and it give massive useless solutions. > I don't even understand why you are trying to do what you are doing. Why > run a GUI on a server? > > If you want to run GUI applications on the sever, why not do X > forwarding? That way you get to use your remote machine for what it is > presumably best at - handling the GUI - while letting the server do the > crunching. VNC gives stateful gui session. X does not have that. VNC is like gnu screen, for X. Similar to RDP. It means he can connect at local server (gui) console, as well as from remote workstation/desktop (which yes is presumably best at handling gui). As to why run a gui on a server at all? Perhaps: gadmin-samba Sadly I have never found samba to be easy to set up. I edit files mostly. I sometimes try gadmin-samba. I've read lots of man pages and docs. Never easy to set up. I still have not understood properly the options I need to understand for my small ngo network, and I've been doing this for over 5 years. I'm sure OP has his own reasons though :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnssreuxh8m5f+jabijax92lyzsxnh+dmuwbsxfcvs9o...@mail.gmail.com