Subject: Re: VNC Server
From: ABrady (kcsmart@kc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2001 - 18:37:24 MDT
Yes, some sort of wm needs to be installed so VNC has something to export.
It doesn't have to be one of those you listed, though. It can be fvwm,
icewm, blackbox, enlightenment, twm, xfce....in short any sort of
windowmanager will do the trick.
But, xwindows is needed by them and is also needed but VNC.
> I don't have KDE, Gnome, or the X window system installed. Are the X
> window components necessary in order to run VNC? I just want to be
> able to connect and have full control over a system w/ VNC. Telnet
> doesn't allow access to some of the system commands, whereas VNC is
> like you're actually at the terminal.
>
> --Brian
>
> >Actually I got VNC Server to work, however, when opening an X window
client
> >from Windows 2000
> >to the VNC Server that is running on YDL 2.0, my X screen in the client
is
> >"screwed up".
> >That is to say, I can't see/read anything sensible. Why?
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brian Watson [mailto:bcwatso1@uiuc.edu]
> >Sent: Friday, 10 August 2001 4:05 AM
> >To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >Subject: VNC Server
> >
> >
> >I downloaded the VNC server rpm from somewhere off of linuxppc.org.
> >I've set the password, but when I try to startup VNC server it says
> >"vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH". Am I missing some
> >files/is there a complete version of VNC I can download?
> >
> >--Brian
>
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