On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > 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. Your post is not helpful in reply to what I have said. You basically say 'don't listen to this guy -- come try this instead!'. I don't appreciate it. Furthermore NX has gone closed-source and is not easier to configure or understand. VNC is simple and is what Eric previously told us he was using. It's right there in the quoted text. -- Liam
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