Is THIS VNC?

[Teo Fonrouge]

Ryan D'Baisse wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:35:21 -0500, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote:
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>>On Monday 27 December 2004 22:20, Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
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>>>Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
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>>>>Am I missing something or is THIS what VNC consists of?  If this
>>>>really is all that VNC has to offer then why would I use VNC instead
>>>>of SSH?
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>>>It's basically a remote X.
>>>Put whatever you want to startup in your ~/.vnc/xstartup file.
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>>>If you want a gnome-session, put that into it.
>>>If you only wanted an xclock, you can have that.
>>>
>>>This is a Linux environment...   you make it into whatever you want it
>>>to be...  You only want a term...  you can have that... you want a
>>>flashy desktop, which a bunch of applets etc, you can have that.
>>>
>>>Vivre la difference! Linux gives you the choice!
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>>>
>>>Mike
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>>Also, one should add that KDE has a internal vnc server (reachable through the
>>control panel) that will share the session you're currently logged in. Gnome
>>can do the same under the preferences -> Remote Desktop...
>>Both of these can be accessed with a vnc viewer easily.
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>My goal is to use Gnome and have the same GUI that I'm used to on my
>desktop.  I edited the "./vnc/xstartup" file on the server.  There
>were two lines that said something like "For a normal desktop
>uncomment the following two lines."  I did that, but nothing.  I did
>not see anything in there to start Gnome however.
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>Shouldn't there be?
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>Thanx,
>Ryan
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Did you restart your vnc server service ?

best regards

Teo Fonrouge