on Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Martin Rowe (debian-lists@dbg400.net) wrote:
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 5:38 am, hanasaki wrote:
> > How can VNC server, on Woody, be setup to drop into the GDM and/or XDM
> > login screen? It is coming up already logged in with the id of the
> > process runing vncserver.
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Hanasaki
>
> The VNC server can run from inetd bringing up a [xkg]dm login prompt
> when someone tries to connect to that port. The functionality was
> absorbed into VNC proper in 3.3.3r2, so Woody should be fine. This
> link[1] is still the best (only?) documentation on the feature found
> going through the VNC site (Contributed...Modifications and
> add-ons...iXvnc).
>
> [1] http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm
Note that _w_dm is not on this list. The Wings Display Manger has a
known bug that prevents it from being used to create an auto-launching
VNC session.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109712
Peace.
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