Re: X on a virtual server
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Or NX from www.nomachine.com, which is free for personal use and is
commercial grade software with excellent printing, USB, and shared
session capability with quite efficient CPU and network use on both
ends. It's a big step up from VNC.
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