Re: What is VNC?
> When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy.
>
> Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you
> don't run your normal X server. Instead you run vncserver from a non-X
> environment. This starts the VNC server, but you don't see any GUI
> locally. To see a local GUI, you then have to do some magic to get your
> window manager to run on the VNC server; this means that you're not
> running your accelerated X server, so you may see some speed issues,
> etc. Then from the second Linux (or Mac, or Windows) box, you run the
> VNC client and connect like in Example 2 above.
>
> In other words, as far as I can tell, you can't run your super-duper
> accelerated, hot-off-the-press, XFree86 server locally if you want to
> see the same desktop locally and via remote control. This is not the
> (semi-equivalent) case on Windows, but it seems to be the case on Linux.
>
> I may very well misunderstand how the thing works, but this is the
> conclusion I've come to after trying it three or four times over the
> past couple of years.
how about xvncviewer connecting to localhost, from using the super-duper
accelerated, hot-off-the-press, XFree86 server
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> Name: Alson van der Meulen <
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We don't support that. We won't support that.
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