[arch-general] vnc on display:0

[sagar n]

Will try xrdp and x2x this weekend and check which works better. Thank You.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:33 AM, pyther <pyther at pyther.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530, "sagar n" <sagar.1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> *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 <sergeym at rmico.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530
>>> "sagar n" <sagar.1986 at gmail.com> 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)
>
>
>



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Sagar N.
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