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Re: running vncserver?



On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:38, Thomas Besser wrote:
> Thomas wrote:
> > All the standard VNC servers for which there are packages fail to run for
> > me (They all segfault in the same library call).
> >
> > However, I am able to run x11vnc, which shares a currently running X
> > session
> > instead of implementing it's own X server.  You could probably "fake" the
> > behavior of a standard VNC server by starting a dummy X server and
> > connecting x11vnc to that. I haven't tried this method though, as I am
> > content to just use my currently running desktop when I need a VNC
> > connection.
>
> Mmmh, AFAIR needs x11vnc a real X-Server on this box. So it's a server and
> I don't need a running X. I only want a remote accessable vmware session
> via vncserver.

Xvfb will function as a "real" running X server, and the combination of Xvfb 
and x11vnc isn't any more of a "real" X server than vncserver, it is just 
split into two programs instead of one.

Thomas

>
> Thanks for your hint.
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> > On Tuesday 11 October 2005 08:33, Thomas Besser wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> found quite old bug reports
> >> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276948,
> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276238), but it seems
> >> they are always atcual: vncserver crashes on startup or even does not
> >> compile.
> >>
> >> Is there no way to get any "vncserver" (tight, vnc3, vnc4) to run on
> >> amd64?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Thomas



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