Re: X on a virtual server
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On 27/06/11 04:25, William Hopkins 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.
>
Not only, you can create totally new X session with it, check --create
option.
If you have not X running it will start one specially for you.
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