VNC problem - now more understood - but a solution?
Raman Gupta
rocketraman at fastmail.fm
Tue Oct 3 17:16:14 UTC 2006
David G. Miller wrote:
> "Mike Cohler" <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So the questions are:
>>
>> 1) Can I do something to wake up the power on the remote monitor once
>> I have ssh'ed in?
>> 2) If not then can I still run VNC to look at the remote screen but
>> not have the constant irritation of the local screen display
>> attempting to put the screensaver back?
>>
>> By the way both machines are running fully up to date FC5 with KDE
>> desktop.
>>
>> I hope someone knows the answer(s)?
>>
> Not to be funny and definitely not to start any kind of a gnome vs.
> KDE flame war but I don't see VNC behaving like this with gnome. This
> includes even having the "screensaver" kick-in after the set
> inactivity period on the VNC desktop. I think both systems were
> running CentOS 4 (gnome, x.org) at the time. Just pointing out that
> this behavior *may* be peculiar to VNC interacting with KDE.
If I recall correctly, when I was using Gnome on Core 4 I never had this
problem either -- even with DPMS on and the Monitor off, and in
powersave mode. Therefore, I suspect you are correct and this is KDE
specific.
Cheers,
Raman
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