On 06/27/11 at 12:47am, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopkins@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > This is confusing. I was trying to help the original poster, Gregory, > by pointing out what is, compared side-by-side, an excellent solution. > I wasn't trying to insult you, and I certainly did not ignore your > suggestions, but rather I tried to help him, as the original poster. I > am sorry if that bothers you, although in a support list, I'm not sure > how to offer a relevant suggestion without possibly insulting someone > so sensitive about alternative approaches. I'll accept that you didn't mean any offense. But it just seemed rude to me at the time, when we are troubleshooting VNC and you offer 'dont use VNC' as a suggestion. It also sounded very like an advertisement. -- Liam
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