Connecting to X session
Hi,
If I remember correctly, there was a question about connecting to an X
session for remote display (well, what else). I just tried to run VNC
, and the default setting is "shared"; which means that anyone who
connects to the same display number, will get the same desktop. It can
be done in the following:
In the machine you want to monitor (to have a desktop on):
vncserver
Of course, this can be done remotely; eg: using ssh. You'd be prompted
for a password and later you'd get output of the display number.
To connect to the VNC server, in your local machine run:
xvncviewer <servername>:<display number>
You'd be prompted to enter the password. In this first run, you may get
nothing but an empty desktop; to have an xterm running, just run "xterm
-display <display number>", on the server machine. Once you have an
xterm on the VNC viewer window, basically you can do anything. To kill
the viewer, just close the window; you don't need to close all the
running applications. Next time you connect, you'd get everything that
was left (assuming that the VNC server wouldn't get killed).
BTW, in the default connection, VNC doesn't use encryption.
Oki
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