Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC
On 12/13/03 21:59, "Scarletdown" <gsutton9503@charter.net> wrote:
> Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE
> desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly
> enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions.
>
> 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do
> I configure vncserver to access a normal non-root user's desktop instead?
>
> 2: The VNC session always gives me the KDE desktop. However, I would
> like to run other desktops as well (GNOME in particular). Is there any
> way to state which Window Manager gets used each VNC session?
>
> 3: My VNC desktop always comes up at 640x480. How do I get it to come
> up at a higher resolution? When logged into an X-Session directly at the
> console, I have 800x600 as my resolution, and my Windows system is set
> for 1024x768.
>
> 4: I also went ahead and installed a vnc server on my Windows-98 system.
> Now, how do I connect to that one from the Linux box?
>
> All in all, I think I will eventually be extremely pleased with VNC, once
> I get the finer details ironed out. This looks like it could be one of
> the most useful open source packages ever conceived. :D
>
I followed these directions and now I get to login when I run vnc...
http://trilug.org/~chrish/blog.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=130
And runs great....
sloopy.
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