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

Jeff Simpson jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu
Mon Apr 3 15:42:32 UTC 2006


On 4/3/06, A JM <vbtalent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running FC4/KDE on this box, are you guy's running FE's or BE's with
> VNC? My interest is using VNC to login to the BE which is where the problems
> arise since if I log out of the session so does all the apps that are
> running on it.
>

I'm confused by this. VNC is a remote connection to X, either to a normal X
session running locally on the machine (on a real display), or to a virtual
X display accessible only by VNC. In either case, you can connect/disconnect
without stopping the running programs (that is the point of VNC).

When you say "log out of the session" do you mean disconnecting VNC viewer?
Or are you going to a menu and saying "log out". If you say "log out", you
are actually logging out of the virtual X session, not logging OFF the
machine (does that make sense?). If you just disconnect the VNC viewer
application instead of logging off, when you reconnect you will see all your
programs still running.

So, Id like to log in and be able to run an app then log/login later if I
> need to so that I can re-start or close down an app that may have gone hay
> wire...
>
> "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."
>
> David, clarify for me what you were saying above? Are you saying that you
> can login using VNC into the existing display 0 which would be an existing
> session if I'm correctly thinking about Linux and sessions...
>

You have two different options depending on which VNC server application you
use. One is to have a real X session that you can connect to both locally
and remotely, the other is to have a VNC-only session that you can only
connect to via the VNC viewer. Either will accomplish what you are looking
to do, I believe.


 - Jeff
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