I understand how vnc.so works. I was trying to determine where to find
documentation for it, so I asked the more general question of which
package it came with. After more research (and a response received on
this list) I learned it is part of RealVNC.
What I was looking to do is provide additional configuration option for
X.org but couldn't do this until I knew where to find the docs--now I
do. So I just need to play with it to try and improve performance--I've
noticed (just recently) that performance over a VPN tunnel is quite slow
when compared to a LAN (I know, this is pretty obvious). What's odd,
though, is that performance is MUCH worse VNC-ing to my Gentoo server on
port :0 then it is on port :1, for example. Puzzling... Anyone have
ideas as to how I can improve this aspect of vnc.so?
~ Tom
BTW... To enable the VNC password, add the following line to 'Section
"Screen" ' of xorg.conf: Option "PasswordFile" "/path/to/.vnc/passwd".
Usually, you have to add a "noauth" option in order to disable password
authentication--this is the option I chose since one would have to
authenticate via XDM and I use xlock/xautolock to secure the logged in
session.
Statux wrote:
After you get X to start with the vnc module as you have, you just use a
vnc viewing program (RealVNC is common). I typically connect to this
system from another Windows box on the LAN but I have done Linux to
Linux (vncviewer) with a system several states away. There's also a way
to set a password but I forget how I did that. I remember setting it as
root since the X server starts as root. There a command that comes with
the client portion of vnc, I think. Poke around.
To others reading this thread, only the newer branch of the vnc project
(version 4, I think) has the vnc server module support. Looking at
things, I see that version 4 is now marked stable (it wasn't when I
installed it on two systems).
Just a word of caution, if you connect to your own box you'll probably
end up with some wacky stuff when you move your mouse, etc. It took me a
while to understand that this is actually the mirror in a mirror issue.
Once I connected from another system, things looked better :)
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:39 -0700, Tom Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I installed "vnc" with the "server" USE flag enabled. I've been working
on getting the vnc.so module loaded for X.org and now have it working.
My question is, is this module a part of RealVNC or some other program?
(I tried to locate a description of the use flags for VNC but was unable
to.)
Thanks in advance for the help.
~ Tom
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