Re: vncserver in future dists

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

Kostas Georgiou wrote:
> 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.

The Xorg server is perfectly capable of running headless, just configure 
it to use the dummy driver.

- ajax