Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE > desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly > enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. > > 1: Every time I connect, I always get root's desktop by default. How do > I configure vncserver to access a normal non-root user's desktop > instead?
You need to run vncserver as that user. > > 2: The VNC session always gives me the KDE desktop. However, I would > like to run other desktops as well (GNOME in particular). Is there any > way to state which Window Manager gets used each VNC session? Checkout the xstartup script in the .vnc directory > > 3: My VNC desktop always comes up at 640x480. How do I get it to come > up at a higher resolution? When logged into an X-Session directly at the > console, I have 800x600 as my resolution, and my Windows system is set > for 1024x768. vncserver -geometry 1024x768 Although that will involve scroll bars. I like to leave a thin border all around, so I'm currently connected to my office system from my notebook at home and the office vncserver is running -geometry 1012x754 - the joy of the vncserver is that is happily supports non-display-standard resolutions. > > 4: I also went ahead and installed a vnc server on my Windows-98 system. > Now, how do I connect to that one from the Linux box? Pass. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
