At 15:28 +0200 9/4/02, you (Gottfried Tagloehner) wrote: >Hello, > >we have installed vncserver on SuSe 7.3. when I connect to the server >(from a W2K prof. workstation) I just get a screen with the console from >the linux-server.
What is "the console from the linux-server"? I presume it's not what you see on the monitor attached to the Linux server at the time. Is it the login window? >How can I modify that I get the kde - view on my screen? What is "the kde - view"? I will presume it's something you see on the monitor attached to the Linux server. I have never used VNC with Linux and KDE but your questions remind me of when I started using VNC with Solaris and CDE. >I could not find the answer in the archive and by the way, I don't know >nothing about linux. What do you mean by "don't know nothing"?. Given your address in Salzburg, I can't be sure what you mean by this double negative. You might be saying that you know nothing about Linux, or that you know something (not nothing) about it. >So if anybody knows the answer, please give us >detailed info how to resolve the problem. You will probably need to learn about Linux, or at least X11. I am not giving you detailed information about that. Then you will find that your server has several X11 displays. One of them is associated with the computer's display hardware (video card, keyboard, mouse) which I will call the console. The other displays (one or more depending on how your VNC server is configured) are nothing to do with the display hardware. They are normally accessed using a VNC client only. Using VNC with X (i.e. with Linux) differs from using it with Windows or the Mac in that the standard VNC server does not give you access to the console. Instead it creates a virtual display which you can log in to and use independently of a user on the console. You can have more than one of these virtual displays and have a different X11 login session on each one. If you want your Linux box to behave like a Windows one with Xvnc, where a user can connect using a VNC client and affect whatever the console is doing, then strictly you cannot do that. You could develop a special hybrid of Xfree86 and Xvnc but as far as I know nobody has done that, and probably for good reason. In practice you might be able to get close to what you want if that does not require strict duplication of the WinVNC behaviour. One method would be to manually log in to the Linux box's console after booting, then connect to a local VNC server using the X VNC client in full-screen mode, and have people using the console use the VNC client only. They would have to log in again on the client. VNC clients elsewhere on the network can connect to the same server in shared mode and see whatever the console user sees. This has many shortcomings. For instance, there is nothing to stop remote users connecting in non-shared mode and disconnecting the console user's client, in which case they'd be confronted with the login done manually after booting. -- seeking employment phone +61 2 9705 9096 PGP key available NO JUNK MAIL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] D A Vincent speaking for self only http://www.zeta.org.au/~dvincent "What am I expected to do? Shout 'man overboard'?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
