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| Author: | STKD [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Remote desktop/VNC app for Debian? |
Just hoping someone can recommend a decent remote desktop viewer app for Debian. Ideally something simple that can let me control my EFIKA desktop from Windows over the LAN. I use UltraVNC on Windows to access my other PC's but am unfamiliar with Linux equivalents, particularly for PPC. Ultimately until MorphOS is released I'll have it set up as a file store/torrent/IRC client running 24/7 to save me leaving my main PC on and "do my bit" for the environment. If I can get a decent remote viewer app I figured I can do away with the monitor, keyboard and mouse and save a bit more energy and space. Any recommendations? |
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| Author: | ironfist [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:57 am ] |
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I don't really understand which computer you want to have running. But there are VNC viewers and servers in both Gnome and KDE. KRDC is a good client. I think it handles VNC as well. |
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| Author: | PurpleAlien [ Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:00 am ] |
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Hi. You can use tightVNC - it's my personal favorite. In Ubuntu (and probably Debian), you can get the server with aptitude install tightvncserver. You can then run it with Code: vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 or something similar (it will ask for a password the first time you run this), and then connect with your vnc client (UltraCNC) to ip-address-of-efika:1 (the 1 indicates the screen , unlike in Windows, you can have many).The config file Code: .vnc/xstartup determines what GUI you will see; you can put there something like:Code:
#!/bin/sh
#For Fluxbox: fluxbox & #For Gnome: #unset SESSION_MANAGER #exec gnome-session & Best regards, Johan |
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| Author: | STKD [ Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:18 pm ] |
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Thank you very much Johan. Got tightvnc up and running in no time under Debian (prefer the speed over Ubuntu), fluxbox wouldn't display anything for some reason when I tried to activate it but Gnome does the job perfectly. |
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| Author: | Leon [ Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:00 am ] |
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I would like to resurrect this topic because I am having trouble while connecting to my Debian-etch Efika (with XFCE4 session) through my VNC-Windows Client. It connects fine and accepts the password, but all I get is the gray scren and the cursor. I did enable remote desktop sharing from settings and installed vncserver via apt-get. Any advices? |
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| Author: | Neko [ Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:25 am ] |
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Quote: I would like to resurrect this topic because I am having trouble while connecting to my Debian-etch Efika (with XFCE4 session) through my VNC-Windows Client.
It sounds like you're not starting any session. A grey screen with a cursor is exactly what you get from X when you start it up with no application (be that calculator or a terminal window or Xeyes or Kwin or Gnome..)It connects fine and accepts the password, but all I get is the gray scren and the cursor. I did enable remote desktop sharing from settings and installed vncserver via apt-get. Any advices? I really don't remember how to set this up anymore, I have been so spoiled by SuSE which had VNC enabled for me on every install (I clicked a button on the installer, et voila..) - but there is a lot of mess behind the scenes with scripts calling scripts to get desktops to happen. I will take a look and see if I can figure it out under Debian.. |
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| Author: | Leon [ Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:50 pm ] |
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Thanks Matt, I guess the problem is with XFCE, as STKD managed to run VNC under Gnome. After some Googling, I saw that there are many people who had trouble with XFCE and VNC, but I could not find a solution yet. There is a xstartup file in ~/.vnc/ , maybe it needs some configuration. |
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| Author: | czp [ Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:59 am ] |
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Tested on openSUSE, but should work also elsewhere, when vnc is not enabled from inetd (the way Matt uses it, which I really don't like). If you change the startup file, you need to shut down vncserver first. You can figure out what to shut down by listing the .vnc directory: Code:
$ ls .vnc/
so, int this case:
factory:1.log factory:1.pid passwd xstartup Code:
$ vncserver -kill :1
Original xstartup with tvm:Code: $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup
If it is already running shut it down and edit for xfce:
#!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm & Code: $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup
Start it again:
#!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources startxfce4 & Code:
$ vncserver
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