[mythtv-users] A recent discussion reminded me of a backburner issue

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 14:20:48 UTC 2014


On 4/19/14, 5:54 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Stephen P. Villano <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My mythbuntu 12.04 64 bit machine never did have VNC work.
>> I'd get a blank desktop, no WM functions at all. Screen at the physical
> AFAIK, the "normal" setup on Unix/Linux type systems is that the VNC session is separate to the physical display - very different from Windows/Mac systems. I believe it is possible to setup a shared display, but it's a different setup.
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> So somewhere during system startup, there should be a VNC server started with an associated X-system display server running. When you connect with a VNC client, you connect to this X server which is unrelated to the X server that's providing a display on your physical monitor.
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> Having said that, I normally just connect with a local X server on my machine and launch programs from there. Eg, from my Mac I can open an SSH session to my backend with the "X" option - this sets up all the behind the scenes gubbins for X to work. Then I can just run (eg) mythtv-setup and the setup program will launch - the program runs on the backend and the display happens on my Mac.
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> For X, using a display on the same machine as the running program is done the same as if they are on different machines - it's just that the network connection is local.
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This appears to be what is happening, no xinit, but VNC is running.
As I said, this is mythbuntu and I enabled X from the mythbuntu control
centre.
It works properly for all other machines, sharing out the extant
autologged in screen, but not on my primary BE that is a 12.04 mythbuntu
64 box.


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