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Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required



On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:42:45AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> I suggest you remove the line which loads the vnc module and try again.
> 
> A potential 'gotcha' is that, depending on the contents of the file
> ~/.vnc/xstartup, the VNC server might launch the same window manager
> that your display manager does. So if you are logged on to your
> workstation via your display manager you will end up with two copies
> running. Some window managers and desktop environments don't like that.
> 
> You can eliminate both of the above problems by quitting X entirely on
> your workstation and launching VNC from a virtual console. This would
> represent the simplest test case.


Or use x11vnc instead of vncserver to connect to the
orgional X11 session.

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  Frank Ball  frankb@frankb.us



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