:: I have had VNC up and running for a few days now, and everything
:: works great, except one problem. I can't use a graphical file
:: managing software like Nautilus. VNCserver is running on a RedHat
:: 7.3 system. VCNclient is running on a Windows XP workstation. If I
:: start Nautilus from the client, nothing happens. However, on the
:: physical machine (the Linux box), Nautilus opens. Has anyone
:: experienced this? Is there a way I can get Nautilus to open on the
:: client viewer?
: I've just played a little with Nautilus. As far as I see, Nautilus is NOT a
: wellbehaved X11 application: It does not listen to the $DISPLAY variable!
If it's hardcoded to open display :0 (eg, to try to prevent people from
using it across a network, or from using multiple copies, or for
whatever other ill-conceived reason), I can see two ways to work around
the problem.
You can configure your system to bring up the native X on :1 or some
other display, leaving :0 free; then start Xvnc (eg, via vncserver)
explicitly on :0. This still has problems if multilple people want to
access the offending app, and you'd have to use VNC or Xnest to run
Nautilus on the actual display, but it ought to work.
Alternatively, use krfb or x4vnc to export the already-running display.
Same problems with multiple people, and also if somebody else wants to
use the main display. But no problems running the offending app on the
main display this time.
http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/
http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/
Wayne Throop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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