On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Scott van Looy wrote: > > > > 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. > > i was just playing with that feature and, yes, when you enable "Remote > Desktop", you're invoking the vino server and not the stock vncserver, > which i'm assuming are two totally independent servers and can be > configured separately. > > which inspires the question -- where does vino-server save its > per-user config info? never mind -- found it: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-266981.html this is slowly morphing from a wiki page into a user guide. argh. 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 ========================================================================
