On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Tinker wrote: > On March 29, 2018 11:36 PM, Mike Larkin <mlar...@azathoth.net> wrote: > .. > > > (Thread crossreferenced with > > > https://marc.info/?t=152230713300003&r=1&w=2 .) > > > > > > Thanks for reporting that you got X dummy working, though only on > > > baremetal but not in a VMM, the latter crashing at X start with > > > message "(EE) xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found". > .. > > what do you hope to achieve here? > > Xvfb + X11vnc gives you a fixed-resolution graphical remote terminal. > > My hope is that dummy X + X11vnc will give the same but allow dynamic > resizing of the X framebuffer upon request to do so via Xrandr from a > VNC resize command. > > This protocol interaction is what happens when you resize a VNC client > window. > > This will be practical when you have one X/VNC server that you will > access from different computers with different screens and screen > resolutions, or you just benefit of dynamically resizing the X > framebuffer without needing to restart all your running X programs. > > With Xvfb you'd be inclined to have some different launch scripts for > your different monitors and usecases, e.g. 1400x1000px, 2500x1500px and > 800x600px variants for surfing web, checking top, checking network > stats etc. . With dummy X you can just resize the same framebuffer as > you go along depending on needs from time to time. >
I see. good luck.
