On Wednesday 03 April 2002 03:43 pm, Cham Mama wrote: > hi thanks for the information. > > What I mean here is if I leave my office PC connected > to the VNC server and all the application runnings on > my PC and then connect to the same VNC server from > home PC by logging in with the same uid, then how I > can get a similar desktop on my home PC with the same > applications running ? How VNC maintains the desktop > information on per user basis ? > So to put in a simple way, does VNC re-associated my > second login from home with the fist login so that I > get the same desktop at home ? But I couldn't get the > code for this in the XVNC code base. If anyone has > more information on this, please let me know
There is no code for this. The client end is a viewer. So, if you have a picture and you stop looking at it, then you come back later and look at it again, how does it look the same? Of course it never changed. So, if you have a VNC server running with a viewer connected, then you disconnect and connect from somewhere else how does it look the same? Well, it doesn't change just because you stop looking at it! Now, specifically, the new client requests a full screen refresh, since it is starting from nothing. But the X clients (programs that you see via VNC) continue running, unaware that you disconnected. Also note that this has nothing to do with UIDs and the only thing that VNC does on a "per user basis" is maintain a separate xstartup file. But note that this has to do with what happens when the VNC server starts, and has nothing to do with what happens when a VNC viewer attaches to the server. (Nothing (except a full screen refresh) happens when a viewer attaches.) If this isn't clear, please pick from the following questions when you reply: 1. How does VNC remember what I was running when I switch viewers. 2. How does VNC know what to run when the server starts. 3. How can I make a VNC server run the same "programs" (X clients) at startup as a different VNC server that works how I want? -Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
