VNC viewer only can see xtern in remote desktop
Gertjan Vinkesteijn
Fedora.1.90 at xs4all.nl
Thu Mar 11 08:48:30 UTC 2004
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Barry Yu [mailto:barryyupuilee at netscape.net]
>>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:17 PM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: VNC viewer only can see xtern in remote desktop
>>
>>
>>I have 2 machines, station-1 and station-2; both boot into fc1.
>>station-2 started the vncserver.
>>station-1 started the vncviewer, the result is - only can see
>>the xterm
>>of station-2, and a small vnc config box at left upper corner, the
>>entire background is gray color, there is not control panel
>>at bottom of
>>window of station-2 !
>>So I reboot the station-2 and this time I select to boot into
>>rh9 (Multi
>>boot in this machine), and started the vncserver.
>>Station-1(fc1) was on
>>all the time without interrupt, and I started the vncviewer
>>to connect
>>to station-2 again, well! the desktop of station-2(rh9) is
>>right there
>>with my favorite wall paper!
>>Both machine running fc1 and the vnc could enable me see a
>>terminal in
>>remote desktop, need help to solve this problem. Thanks.
>>
>>
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>If you check the archives, you will see that you might need to edit
>this file..
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>vi ~/.vnc/vncstartup
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>and put there the desktop you want.
>
>On another note.. Why not use native X or ssh -X (X Forwarding using SSH?)
>It works great on mine. All I need is
>
>ssh -X -l User server
># xterm &
>or
># gedit &
>
>and it'll come out on your station1 desktop.
>
>(note: I think you need to enable ssh forwarding in /etc/ssh_config or
>sshd_config.
>I forget)
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Can anybody recommand a cheapo webcam and what software to us? Or should
I first read the above lines? I just woke up ;-(
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