*It is not totally headless, sorry, it doesnot have a keyboard or mouse. But it does have a monitor which I use to watch media. So, I want to connect via vnc/anything and get to control it. So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont think it has :0 connection. As of now, I am trying to speed up x11vnc by looking at its various options. Since it polls, I am not sure if I can achieve any decent speed boost. Thank you Sagar N On 12/28/08, Sergey Manucharian wrote:

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530 "sagar n" wrote: ...

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I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. If it's PHYSICALLY headless, what is the reason to use namely :0 anyway?

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In any case, is there an alternative way to connect to display:0 remotely? Personally I use nomachine [1]. Although this is not the answer to your question (it's not display :0 connection), but works very fast.

# pacman -S nxserver # pacman -S nxclient

The client is available for different platforms.

Cheers, Sergey

[1] http://www.nomachine.com

-- Sagar N. Dont look at my finger, look at the moon.

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530 "sagar n" wrote: ....

So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont think it has :0 connection. As of now, I am trying to speed up x11vnc by looking at its various options. Since it polls, I am not sure if I can achieve any decent speed boost. ....

And how about xrdp? http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ I didn't used it much though... Cheers, Sergey

Will try xrdp and x2x this weekend and check which works better. Thank You. On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:33 AM, pyther wrote:

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530, "sagar n" wrote:

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*It is not totally headless, sorry, it doesnot have a keyboard or mouse. But it does have a monitor which I use to watch media. So, I want to connect via vnc/anything and get to control it.

So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont think it has :0 connection. As of now, I am trying to speed up x11vnc by looking at its various options. Since it polls, I am not sure if I can achieve any decent speed boost.

Thank you Sagar N

On 12/28/08, Sergey Manucharian wrote:

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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530 "sagar n" wrote: ...

...

I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. If it's PHYSICALLY headless, what is the reason to use namely :0 anyway?

...

In any case, is there an alternative way to connect to display:0 remotely? Personally I use nomachine [1]. Although this is not the answer to your question (it's not display :0 connection), but works very fast.

# pacman -S nxserver # pacman -S nxclient

The client is available for different platforms.

Cheers, Sergey

[1] http://www.nomachine.com

You might want to look at x2x

Basically you run the following:

On the Server: xhost +desktop_hostname On your machine: x2x -to servershostname:0.0 -west

You just need to change exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp to exec /usr/bin/X in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (I did it both for the host and client machines)

-- Sagar N. Dont look at my finger, look at the moon.