On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: > On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote: > > >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all! > > > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your > > purpose. > > My purpose, at this early stage, is simplicity itself: I have a > "virtual private server" up and running -- root access and all that -- > and I want to have some sort of X desktop available on it that I can > remotely log in to. What do you suggest? At present I feel I am close > to getting the login to work, but of course there is nothing > resembling an X session there (i.le window manager, Gnome or KDE). x11vnc is for creating a VNC instance to an existing X server. You just want a VNC server: look into tightvncserver. -- Liam
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