Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> AFAIK, on the Sun there's a separate Xvnc server, but the VNC extensions for
> Xorg aren't available on OpenSolaris (yet or ever?),
It won't be delivered as long as the VNC extension is GPL licensed
and Xorg drivers we want to support, like nvidia's & the SPARC ones,
are closed source, unless some lawyer finds a clever loophole, but
I've been respecting the spirit of the licenses and not pushing the
bounds of the exact wording.
> which means one can
> access a separate session on the Sun (if one has set up dtlogin or gdm or
> whatever to run Xvnc as well as Xorg or Xsun), but one cannot take remote
> control of an already running local session.
You should be able to take control of a running local GNOME session through
GNOME's built in Vino VNC server.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
