> -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph Armstrong [mailto:ralph@;bustech.com] > > I am trying to autologin to a kde desktop and then share that > desktop with a > Windows PC using the VNC Java client. (I recognize the > potential security issues in doing this). > > If I start RH7.3 in init 3 and manually log on I can run vncserver to > establish a kde desktop and then run xinit to start vncviewer > to display the desktop locally (display :0). > > The Windows PC can then use port 5801 to access the desktop > from Internet Explorer. > > But I cannot figure out how to automatically start this > environment without manually logging on first.
Try to figure out how the vncservice from the redhat distro works. (or not and read on) > > It appears that in Red Hat the only way to autologin the kde > desktop is with kdm. Ive modified the kdm Xservers file > (/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers) to start > Xvnc on display 1 instead of starting X on display 0. But > when I do that > kdm 3 never appears to completely initialize. The task list shows > kdm-config running, rather than kdm-greeting, which is > normally what shows up once X is started. If the origional was Xfree 4.x, move it all back and use http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/. > > Could someone please tell me how to autologin into kde with > Xvnc? I dont > really need kdm. I just need to start Xvnc (with kde) and X > with vncviewer > under a non-root userid without having to manually login to > mingetty and run vncserver and xinit. For this, you can also use http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp (well, sort of. It's the autologin of vnc and then a normal login. CBee _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
