ok, dumb question time, but you knew that, right? :-) On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > hmmmm ... i never tried that particular scenario, but i'm aware > > now that the newer and better way to grab the native X display is > > to use the vnc.so module. having said that, i've been unable to > > get that to work, despite a couple readable online pages. > > > > so, if anyone has an actual (heh heh) recipe for taking control of > > a remote desktop using vnc.so, feel free to drop me a note -- i'll > > test it, then wiki it for others. > > I used it some versions back but I think the reason I quit was that > it quit working at some point in the switch to Xorg. The current > version seems to be named libvnc.so but I'm not sure if it is fixed > and I don't have anything later than FC6 to test. yes, it's libvnc.so, here (on my F8 x86_64 system): # rpm -qf /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so vnc-server-4.1.2-23.fc8 so that looks good on the server side. > It should just be a matter of adding the Load statement in your > Xorg.conf and having a password file. This advice looks promising: > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=162314 actually, i was following along here: http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html and, in the spirit of trying to do as little as possible to get something working initially, i made the following changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the server side (obviously disabling any authentication as a first attempt): ===== ... Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection Option "SecurityTypes" "None" <-- added this EndSection Section "Module" <-- and this entire section Load "vnc" EndSection ===== on the server side i then restarted X (init 3; init 5) and, from the client side: $ vncviewer 192.168.1.4:0 and, lo, i get a VNC window, but it looks like crap -- jagged graphics, underneath which you can vaguely see that, yes, it is trying to represent the remote desktop, and the remote control does work but, clearly, i have some work to do here. perhaps messing with the geometry or something. but, basically, the vnc.so functionality seems good -- i just need to diagnose why the display looks like crap. i'm open to suggestions. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
