On Mon, 14 May 2012, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote:
Is it possible to boot Ubuntu, not load an X window manager and still
run Xvnc on :1 for remote access?
If I'm actually sitting at the machine, I have to load a window manager
to be able to see vncviewer, I assume?
Is that how it works?
What I've been doing is using IceWM in Xvnc and exclusively accessing
the system through that, but I have Gnome running all the time on :0,
mostly doing nothing but taking up space.
Mike:
I use Gnome, not Xvnc, on my desktop, and I'm by no means an expert, but
my understanding is that Xvnc is an X server, and in general, U should
only have one of those running. My guess is that Xvnc is your X server,
and U're running IceWM as your window manager on :1. Probably, the X
startup/login script (~/.xinitrc?) is launching Gnome (on the first
available screen, perhaps?), and U need to remove or comment out those
commands to conserve resources. U would also be able to run IceWM on :0
instead of :1.
Thanks, Phillip. On my system, it seems that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc calls
/etc/X11/Xsession and there is no ~/.xinitrc file.
Suppose I make it so that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc doesn't start X11. I
guess I would then see a console window after booting. Can I just run
vncserver :1, say, from there, then run vncviewer from that console? It
just seems like that would fail because I don't have a graphical
interface. How can vncviewer run without a DISPLAY?
By the way, I have been running Xvnc on :1 for years without any failures
(that's RealVNC Free). It ran once for something like 500 days on
Solaris. It's really the same on Ubuntu -- no failures -- but I happen to
have the machine in a place where the power sometimes goes out and that
has limited me to only about 200 days of uninterrupted uptime.
Mike
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