Hello,
> I like how it is now more in my opinion.
> Your suggestion is harder to understand in my opinion.
All right. Then let's just:
- use the same display number for consistency
- mention that the we're doing SSH tunneling
- use different port numbers in the examples, so that it is easier to
understand where/what is "local" and where/what is "remote"
The patch is attached.
Cheers,
Bost
From 9bf0d51aa1351d12bf5115b7adc3aee8ec7fde75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
Message-ID: <9bf0d51aa1351d12bf5115b7adc3aee8ec7fde75.1744212208.git.rostislav.svob...@gmail.com>
From: Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svob...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:12:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improve VNC Services section.
* doc/guix.texi (VNC Services): Don't change the value of
`display-number`. Refine the `xclock` and `vncviewer` invocation examples.
Change-Id: I3175072d41ac8efb0a33e1d4fb29afaff7fc06dd
---
doc/guix.texi | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index bee80cd4e2..a0efb46ed5 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -35898,18 +35898,19 @@ VNC Services
@lisp
(service xvnc-service-type
- (xvnc-configuration (display-number 10)))
+ (xvnc-configuration (display-number 5)))
@end lisp
As a demonstration, the @command{xclock} command could then be started
on the remote machine on display number 10, and it could be displayed
-locally via the @command{vncviewer} command:
+locally using the SSH tunneling mechanism, via the @command{vncviewer}
+command:
@example
# Start xclock on the remote machine.
-ssh -L5910:localhost:5910 @var{your-host} -- guix shell xclock \
- -- env DISPLAY=:10 xclock
-# Access it via VNC.
-guix shell tigervnc-client -- vncviewer localhost:5910
+ssh -L5906:localhost:5905 @var{your-host} -- guix shell xclock \
+ -- env DISPLAY=:5 xclock
+# Access the xclock via VNC.
+guix shell tigervnc-client -- vncviewer localhost:5906
@end example
The following configuration combines XDMCP and Inetd to allow multiple
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