I've been struggling to get a remote X desktop to so I can run GUI apps on the
Fedora box (downstairs) on my Windows box (upstairs). After screwing around
with various X-servers, I switched over to VNC today. It's incredibly easy!
Here's a brief how-to for those interested.
1. Install VNC server. As root, I used
up2date vnc-server
2. After it installed
chkconfig --levels 345 vncserver on
cd /etc/sysconfig
vi vncservers
I added a line
VNCSERVERS="1:myuserid"
and to create an XSession on display #1 and saved the file.
/sbin/service vncserver start
to start the service
3. Logged out, logged back in with "myuserID".
vncserver
It prompts for a password to be used for the VNC connection.
cd .vnc
vi xstartup
I changed this file to start the normal BlueCurve desktop instead
of a bare twm session by commenting out the line
twm&
and adding
exec gnome-session &
4. On the PC, I installed the VNC viewer from http://www.realvnc.com.
To connect to the linux box, I connect to
mylinuxhost:1
--
Steve
