On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> >
> >
> >run vncserver :0. start X, but instead of starting a window manager
> >in your .xinitrc, run vncviewer localhost:0 in full screen mode.
> > set up your ~/.vnc/xstartup to run e.g. startkde.
> >
> >>soon. Also, the link in the FAQ to whomever it was that wrote an RFB
> >>protocol program to accomplish the sharing of :0 didn't work.
> >>
> >
> > Can't comment on this part :-)
> >
> > Austin
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> I must have done something wrong here. I'll go through the steps that I
> did. Let me know if I missunderstood something in your instructions.
> Here goes. I droped the machine to init 3 (I'm running RH 7.3).
> Logged in as the user I'm trying to get this working for, and did
> vncserver :0. Then, thinking that start X meant typing 'startx' I first
> made sure that .xinitrc wasn't going to start a window manager. In
> fact, .xinitrc didn't even exist in her home dir. So, I made and with
> only one line and that is, 'vncviewer -shared -fullscreen localhost:0.
> Also, her xstartup file is starting kde. Then I did startx, and X
> failed because something was already using :0.
>
> So, what did I do wrong? What did I miss?
>
I had thought X was smart enough to find the first available
display - which maybe it is - but xinit/startx seems to set it to :0
explicitly when it starts the server. You can override it by doing
"startx -- :1", where the -- part means everything else is passed by
startx as an argument to X.
Also IIRC .xinitrc has to be executable. You probably have to
"chmod +x ~/.xinitrc".
Austin
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