Scott van Looy wrote:
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. 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
It Just Works(TM) under gnome on a fresh install of Fedora 8 -
System/Preferences/Internet and Network/Remote Desktop
Under Fedora 7 with desktop effects on you could control the desktop but
couldn't see what you were doing on VNC
Under fedora 6 it should work too.
run vncpasswd first as the local user to set a password, then connect to
the IP and :1 after enabling "remote desktop". Though I still don't know
how to connect to the login screen via vnc...
I think you are running vino if you start it from inside gnome - which
means you can't get a login screen through it and if your machine
reboots when you are away you won't get back in at all. The advantage
of the x module is that it works even at the login screen and regardless
of which window manager you start. Or it did, back when it worked at all.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
