Re: Currently on x11vnc, looking for reliable VNC solution?
On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 02:49, Chuck Zmudzinski <brchuckz@netscape.net> wrote:
> On 9/7/2022 12:13 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> > I use the tigervnc-standalone-server which is in the Debian packages
> > archives. I use it only on a trusted LAN network so I don't need an
> > encrypted vnc connection either, and I can access it remotely from the
> > Internet by connecting to the LAN using a VPN (I use strongswan/IKEv2
> > for the VPN server). The main configuration files are at ~/.vnc, and
> > there are tools to configure it such as vncpasswd. The most important
> > configuration file is ~/.vnc/xstartup, where you launch your DE or
> > window manager of your choice.
> > You can launch the server from a terminal logged in as an ordinary user
> > and the server runs as an ordinary user in the background so after you
> > start the server in a terminal you can exit that terminal session.
> Actually, you *should* exit that terminal session, especially if it is
> a terminal window running in the same kind of session (gnome, lxde, etc)
> and as the same user that you plan to run in the VNC server. This is
> another limitation of the tigervnc-standalone-server: it does not connect
> to an already running X11 session but instead launches a new session as
> an ordinary user as specified in ~/.vnc/xstartup.
> I have found that if I try to run two sessions as the same user, one over
> VNC and one on the local desktop, it does not work too well, at least
> with the current version of gnome, probably because there is not good
> enough separation of the various user processes that gnome starts for
> each user session.
Hi,
Regarding your final sentence, I wonder if installing dbus-x11 instead of
dbus-user-session would improve that situation.
Because of what I read in the 'Description' in the output of
'apt show dbus-user-session'.
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