Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?

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

Please bicker some more amongst yourselves about the various 
implementations, I just took vnc4server, and the default behaviour of 
that particular package is to give you a fresh desktop instead of 
desktop :0.

NOFI :)

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Alan Pope wrote:
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> > On 29/06/05, Jorge Tomé Hernando <jorge@jorgetome.info> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:34, Arjen Verweij said:
> > >      
> > >
> > > > L.S.,
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian.
> > > > My client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC
> > > > that will give me the desktop the user at the workstation is seeing,
> > > > not a fresh one.
> > > >
> > > > I only have experience with VNC/rdesktop to Windows machines, and
> > > > didn't stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC
> > > > server was on a Debian box.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> > > >        
> > > VNC works in Linux in the same way that in MS Windows. I think that it is
> > > all you need.
> > >      
> > It doesn't actually
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> Yes, it does.  It's how the Linux VNC server connects to X that matters.  In 
> KDE krfb provides a shared desktop, accessible via any VNC client.  Gnome 
> probably has something similar.
>