[mythtv-users] Network control?

[Phill Edwards]

> Actually, for Fedora Core (and likely other distros with recent VNC
> versions)  you don't even need x11vnc to attach to the current
> screen/session.  Just add:
> 
> Load     "vnc"
> 
> to your xorg.conf file Modules section and
> 
> Option     "passwordFile" "/home/david/.vnc/passwd"
> 
> to your Screen section (change the passwd file location as necessary).
> Create the password file using vncpasswd.  VNC passwords are not tied to
> user accounts, so you can use any VNC passwd no matter the user account
> logged in.
> 
> Then disable the vncserver process from init.d -- you won't need it
> anymore.  This way you use the stock VNC distro.  It's very slick, and
> performance and resource utilization is much better since you're not
> starting a whole new X session for VNC like you do with vncserver.

Hey - thanks for that. I've been using x11vnc - I didn't know it was
built into the distro already. I've now got rid of x11vnc and I've
noticed that this is quicker on the client end.

Thanks,
Phill