Question about VNC

Sidney Shapiro sidney-3Kd7Tu4o6f/sBN0MCq728g at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 2 12:59:41 UTC 2003


> 
> VNC is already using display 0, so you would have to do:
> 
> startx -- :1
> 
> Question, though. The whole point of VNC is that you have an X desktop
> open from
> the remote machine. Why start *another* X session on top of it?
> 
> Instead, on the remote machine, there should be a ~/.vnc dir, create a
> file
> called xstartup, make it executable, and then edit it to start
whatever
> desktop
> or window manager you want to run on VNC.
> 

Hmmm, I am trying to get my local VNC prog to display the RH X screen to
show a client how to make some changes. 

Sid


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