[mythtv-users] How to get X11VNC to run at reboot??

Christopher McEwan christopher.mcewan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 12:41:46 UTC 2006


On 4/3/06, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/3/06, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Correct me if I'm wrong VNC will not allow you to log into an existing
> > > session, correct? I know X11VNC does.
> >
> > I know what you're saying but it seems to work for me - somehow. I
> > just start up a VNC viewer client on my Windows PC and see the
> > mythfrontend menu etc. I presume that's what you want to do too.
> >
>
> Yeah, this vnc server is started when the OS is loaded and hosts what
> you see on display 0 (if you pardon the non-techy speak).  It doesn't
> have the processing overhead you used to get with X11VNC either.
>
> Side Note: Ubuntu has a similar thing built in that they call Remote
> Desktop (sound familiar??), however, a user must be logged in for the
> session to be running :(
>
> Whytey
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If I need to access an existing desktop remotely I usually just ssh in and
start the process manually, then run vnc and when finished i kill the x11vnc
for security.

It would have to be said though that 99% of what I do on remote machines is
achievable through and SSH CLI

--
Regards,


~CM
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