more Fedora Cookbook: VNC

[Les Mikesell]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 2:54 AM, Alexander Apprich
> <a.apprich at science-computing.de> wrote:
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>   yes, yes, it's really basic stuff but ...
> I found this to be informative.
> 
> I've not used vnc for about 10 years, since Windows 95.
> 
> It works differently than I remember.  In the old days, when I would
> use vnc, I would see the programs that were running on the other
> system, and I'd take control of the keyboard and mouse of the other
> system. It was handy for practical jokes where we would make people's
> PCs do crazy stuff.
> 
> In this vnc on Fedora, I see a blank desktop, rather than a running
> session on the other PC.
> 
> What's the story there?

Linux can run multiple sessions, so there are several ways to run the 
vnc service.  One is to use vncserver to start separate long-running 
sessions that are not attached to the console.  That is, you can 
connect, start some programs, disconnect, then reconnect later, perhaps 
from a different view and the programs will still be running.  Another 
way is to set up xinetd to start new sessions for each connections which 
will be destroyed as you disconnect.  Yet another is with an X module 
that allows you to connect to the console session, more or less like the 
windows version where that was the only available session.

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   Les Mikesell
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