Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

[Arjen Verweij <a.verweij@student.tudelft.nl>]

Thanks for your suggestions. I think I prefer x11vnc because it is 
independent of the Desktop Environment I choose. Also, I'm toying with 
vnc-java, because using ssh for tunneling purposes isn't always an option.

It works with the standard config, now I'm trying to get it to work with 
others, like 80/443. It seems x11vnc requires two ports at all times, 
which is cumbersome, but I'm betting on 80/443 being available in most 
networks ;)

Regards

Arjen Verweij

Ross Burton wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:24 +0200, Jorge Tomé Hernando wrote:
>  
>
> > > It doesn't actually
> > >
> > > On windows it grabs the desktop, on linux it connects to an already
> > > running vnc/x session. This means that on windows you will get access
> > > to the desktop as it is seen at the local machine, but on linux you
> > > get to see a different desktop.
> > >
> > > e.g. on a linux box you locally connect to desktop :0, but when you
> > > start vnc server you will start it on desktop :1, which you connect to
> > > remotely, a different desktop.
> > >      
>
> Not strictly true.  If you use a VNC server which creates a new display,
> this happens.  But most of the VNC server implementations for X will
> expose an exising display.  If you run GNOME install Vino, this will
> expose your current desktop over VNC and give you a nice UI to
> enable/disable/set passwords/etc.
>
> Ross
>