vnc

[Susan Macchia]

On the geometry - note that you can also pass it using the -geometry 
flag to vncviewer....  FWIW

vu pham wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
>> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 10:15:27 am Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>> On Jan 21, 2008 9:26 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to get the whole desktop screen of a remote Linux 
>>>> desktop
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I tried VNC but I just got a remote X window, not the whole desktop.
>>> What's a "remote X window"?
>>
>> It's a grey screen with an "X" on it...
>>
>> Vu... on server end... in ~/.vnc (or where ever you have it)  alter 
>> xstartup to look like...
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>> startkde
>>
>> #comment above and uncomment below to turn off kde and enable twm
>>
>> #xsetroot -solid grey
>> #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "VNC Desktop" &
>> #twm &
>>
>>
>> Shutdown vncserver and restart... Your clients will probably work now....
>>
> Jerry,
> 
> Thanks for your email. I looked into my ~/.vnc and its original conetent 
> is :
> # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
> #unset SESSION_MANAGER
> #exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> 
> [ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
> [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
> 
> xsetroot -solid grey
> vncconfig -iconic &
> xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
> twm &
> 
> So I commented out the last four lines and add startkde and the log 
> showed startkde could not find. I use Fedora's Gnome.
> 
> Then I looked at the comment at the begginging of the file and 
> uncommented out the first two commands unset and exec, then I get the 
> real desktop.
> 
> 
> The remote desktop is a little bit small, so I went into 
> /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and change the geometry there.
> 
> Now it works great.
> 
> Thanks everybody. I could fix my vnc, and I learned about freenx.
> 
> Vu
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