Re: vncserver in future dists

[Kostas Georgiou <k georgiou imperial ac uk>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:51:50PM +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm going to port x11vnc
> (http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/) project as default vncserver in
> future dists. Current vncserver has self xorg-server and this is
> argument for x11vnc. When main xorg-x11-server package is patched,
> patches must be ported to vnc now. vncserver might be only "layer" on
> xorg-x11-server and have dependency for it. Maintaining of vnc could be really easy.. What do you think
> about it?? Is this bad idea??

>From what I can tell x11vnc requires a running X server which makes it
useless for headless servers. None of my users uses vnc in this setup
(or will want to). I thought that KDE (and Gnome I suspect) offer this
already anyway.

Kostas Georgiou