more Fedora Cookbook: VNC

[Scott van Looy]

Today Les Mikesell did spake thusly:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> 
>> hmmmm ... i never tried that particular scenario, but i'm aware now
>> that the newer and better way to grab the native X display is to use
>> the vnc.so module.  having said that, i've been unable to get that to
>> work, despite a couple readable online pages.
>> 
>> so, if anyone has an actual (heh heh) recipe for taking control of a
>> remote desktop using vnc.so, feel free to drop me a note -- i'll test
>> it, then wiki it for others.
>
> I used it some versions back but I think the reason I quit was that it quit 
> working at some point in the switch to Xorg.  The current version seems to be 
> named libvnc.so but I'm not sure if it is fixed and I don't have anything 
> later than FC6 to test.  It should just be a matter of adding the Load 
> statement in your Xorg.conf and having a password file. This advice looks 
> promising:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=162314

It Just Works(TM) under gnome on a fresh install of Fedora 8 - 
System/Preferences/Internet and Network/Remote Desktop
Under Fedora 7 with desktop effects on you could control the desktop but 
couldn't see what you were doing on VNC
Under fedora 6 it should work too.

run vncpasswd first as the local user to set a password, then connect to 
the IP and :1 after enabling "remote desktop". Though I still don't know 
how to connect to the login screen via vnc...

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