vncserver in future dists

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Wed Nov 1 15:25:45 UTC 2006


Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:51:50PM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm going to port x11vnc
>> (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/) project as default vncserver in
>> future dists. Current vncserver has self xorg-server and this is
>> argument for x11vnc. When main xorg-x11-server package is patched,
>> patches must be ported to vnc now. vncserver might be only "layer" on
>> xorg-x11-server and have dependency for it. Maintaining of vnc could be really easy.. What do you think
>> about it?? Is this bad idea??
> 
>>From what I can tell x11vnc requires a running X server which makes it
> useless for headless servers. None of my users uses vnc in this setup
> (or will want to). I thought that KDE (and Gnome I suspect) offer this
> already anyway.

The Xorg server is perfectly capable of running headless, just configure 
it to use the dummy driver.

- ajax




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