On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Chris Devers wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
> > Xvnc can be used to display local X-clients
>
> I realize that, but I thought VNC needed a layer of software underneath it
> to produce the graphics that are transmitted over the VNC protocol. It
> could be that standard versions of VNC include a minimal X11, but I had
> the impression that it was more common to just use what the system offers.
> Is this not accurate then?

Sort of.  It requires some X11 libs to compile, but no server needs to be
running. So, it doesn't export an existing X11 session, but creates it's
own "virtual" X11 session.


-Jeff

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