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On 09/21/2011 03:09 PM, Mache Creeger wrote:
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<font size="3">At 11:57 AM 9/21/2011, Mark Boyum wrote:<br>
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Are you saying I can run X
on TightVNC on Windows 7? That is my client.<br>
<br>
If you are going to use VNC you can boot your backend to the
text
only<br>
console. Then use putty (or similar) to ssh into the backend
from<br>
your Windows computer. Start vncserver from the ssh session
and
then<br>
launch your favorite VNC client on the windows box to connect
over
to<br>
the backend.<br>
<br>
If you're new to Linux it isn't necessarily straight forward
but<br>
nothing a bit of Google-Fu can't overcome.</font></blockquote>
<br>
Thanks but what I really want is to have Gnome 3 running on my
Fedora 15
MBE and access the GUI using TightVNC on my Windows 7 laptop. I
really do
now want to run X and Gnome 3 on the laptop if I can avoid it as I
need
to keep the overhead on the laptop to a minimum. <br>
<br>
My issue is how to get Gnome (and X) to boot without an attached
monitor,
keyboard, and mouse. I had it running on Fedora 13, but when I
upgraded
to Fedora 15 that /etc/X11/xorg.conf stopped working. I printed
out my
most recent /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/logXorg.0.log files in a
previous
post. <br>
<br>
Any ideas?<br>
<br>
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Please realize here that people are talking about several different
things here, and perhaps some are getting them confused.<br>
<br>
* When you ssh in and then export X to somewhere else, the X server
is running on that somewhere else.<br>
<br>
* When you want to use VNC, that means that a VNC X server is
running on the headless machine.<br>
<br>
* It sounds to me like you want the headless machine to have the
mythtv user do an autologin and start the GNOME desktop.<br>
<br>
Believe it or not, that's a different matter entirely. Typically
autologin is a function of the display manager, though it can be
done in other ways. The display manager requires a display, or at
least an X server, and I don't know of a way to make the VNC server
fill that bill.<br>
<br>
I suspect your best bet is the "Ignore EDID" stuff that Mark Boyum
suggests, and allow a real X server to start and mythtv to
autologin. Then you want to get a thing called "x11vnc" and have
the mythtv user run that. At that point you'll be able to use VNC
to get in and see the desktop.<br>
<br>
An alternative would be to run some sort of initscript as root to
start a text-mode session for the mythtv user. Then presumably in
.profile the mythtv user would start a regular VNC server (not
x11vnc - a special-case VNC server that attaches to a running X
session) and then start /usr/bin/gnome-session. There would likely
have to be some monkeying in there with DISPLAY and xauth cookies,
as well. I've never tried to do this, and therefore can't tell you
exactly how to do it.<br>
<br>
Dale Pontius<br>
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