On Saturday, 24 February 2007 23:08, Gyuszk wrote: > Dear Gentoo users, > > I'm having VNC-related problems. > I want to make VNC'ing work the following: > > I have a Gentoo desktop box with gdm+gnome, only one user. I'm using X > on DISPLAY:0 0-24/7 all the time. If I'm not sitting in front of the > box, I lock the session with the corresponding Gnome menu. So, X > DISPLAY:0 is always active with my Gnome desktop (sometimes locked, > thats all). > > I have another machine with Windows XP. (Just on a little partition, I > want to install Linux on the remaining 70GB.) > > >From this machine I want to connect using VNC to the gentoo desktop. > > I've read the corresponding howtos on gentoo-wiki.org, with no success. > What works: I can connect to the Gentoo box using VNC, but it opens > DISPLAY:1 and starts an X session with TWM, instead of opening my > existing X session on DISPLAY:0 > > All in all: I want to connect (using TightVNC Win32) to the existing > DISPLAY:0 (gnome) session. Is it possible? > If isn't, the following will do: > > a GDM session opens in my VNC window, and I can login to my account into > gnome. With existing user, with existing home folder. > > I hope I was clear. Sorry for my English, I'm from Hungary. > > Thanks in advance! > > Gyuszk
You can use x11-misc/x11vnc to view an existing X session over vnc. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
