Hello All, I'm new to this mailing list, but have been using VNC for several years.
I have used VNC to access my UNIX box at work from my PC at home and laptop. But the main way in which I use VNC daily is to run the VNC server on my Windows 2000 laptop and connect to it from my Unix box with a VNC client. This allows me to use one keyboard and mouse to control both my PC and Unix box and allows me to cut and paste between them, which has been very useful and productive for me. My project mandated mailer (Lotus Notes) requires the W2K box. I run an Xserver on three graphics adapters in my Unix box. Two of the adapters (DISPLAY values are :0.0 and :0.1) are connected to monitors and I use them for my Unix work. The other is not normally connected to a monitor (DISPLAY value is :0.2). Instead I connect my PC directly to a third monitor and use VNC to provide the keyboard and mouse access to the PC. VNC graphics were obviously slower than a direct monitor connection to my PC. Now I'm adding Linux to the mix. I have installed RedHat 7.3 on the same laptop and sometimes need to use it instead of Windows 2000 (I do loose my mailer for the duration, though). I have successfully loaded Linux VNC binaries on the RedHat 7.3 install, started a VNC server and connected to it from my normal Unix box. However, when you start a VNC server on any Unix box it always starts a background X Server (DISPLAY=:1). What I would really like to do is be able to connect directly to the same Xserver (DISPLAY=:0) that I can visually see on my laptop screen. This would allow me a setup similar to that for my Windows 2000 box. I'm no X guru, but I think you would have to have a version of some X server with VNC support added to do what I would like. Has anyone out there done anything like this with a Linux X server and VNC or have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any information. P.S. Sorry for the long initial note. Stan Gowen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) STI Design Center - Software Development Off: (512)838-8284 Fax: (512)838-1929 B906/3001A IBM, 11501 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
