On 20/01/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 16:12, Chris Norman wrote: > > Hi mate, I have the VNC client, that's working fine. > > > > I made the changes to xorg.conf, but nothing seems to have happened. The > > thing is, I'm running over SSH, is there a service I can restart in order to > > get VNC listening? > > You need to restart X. Logging out at the console would do it, > or hitting control-alt-backspace at the console. From a > remote connection, doing an 'init 3' followed by an 'init 5' > as root should do it. There might be something less drastic. > Easiest way to do it: - ssh to linux box - type "vncserver" - note the display number that it just started on - connect with your vncviewer to linuxbox:displaynumber (probably 1) To get the usual gnome desktop, read ~/.vnc/xstartup and uncomment the relevant line. -- Kind regards, John Francis
