VNC Server
brad.mugleston at comcast.net
brad.mugleston at comcast.net
Tue Jul 6 04:02:44 UTC 2004
Be very careful upgrading Evolution - I did the upgrade and it
took over my computer, upgraded everything to be Evolution and I
lost a lot of my basic programs.
Upgrade with Evolution at your own risk.
Brad
On 4 Jul 2004, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Rick, I am having trouble with Evolution at the moment where I am
> unable to reply to your post containing the instructions to get VNC
> working. I have tried four times so far and all messages have been
> empty. Perhaps the time has come to invoke yum and update Evolution :-)
>
> Anyway, to continue... The xstartup file created by the first invocation
> of vncserver did not contain the line 'unset SESSION_MANAGER'. After
> inserting that line I managed to get the XWindow I was expecting.
> However, to get the vncviewer to work I had to use the following
> command:- 'sudo vncviewer -via barney barney:1' Without the 'sudo' it
> failed with the 'unable to read password' error. Using sudo it asked for
> root's password on barney, then my user password on barney and it all
> worked.
>
> One thing I would like to change if I can is the size of the TightVNC
> window that comes up. The argument 'fullscreen' defaults to 'no' but
> that is almost as big as fullscreen. It is larger than the screen size
> and results in a scroll bar right and bottom. Is there a way to set the
> screen size?
>
> Thanks for all your help so far.
>
>
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Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
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