On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0600, Daugherty, William wrote: > > What do you mean by I need to know which virtual X server I am > invoking VNC.
Every X server has a display number associated with it. Display numbers look like: hostname:0 hostname:0.0 hostname:10.0 unix:1 :2 (this is the same as localhost:2) etc. There can only be one X server running for each display number. You are probably running another X server (XFree86) on your local physical display which provides your local desktop environment. It is running on display :0 which is why you were getting: > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 You should be able to get Xvnc on another display, such as :1. The easiest and best way to do this is to use the vncserver script which automatically finds a free display, but you could also run: Xvnc :1 > I appologize for my lack needy questions but this is not documented > very well for trying to run on Linux. Does anyone know where I can > find some highly detailed documentation? Something other than the > lame docs that I downloaded from the VNC site would be prefered. I > also read the README that came with the linux relase of VNC but I got > very little usable information related to my problem. The documentation assumes some knowledge of the X Window System. > [root@crichton vnc]# ./vncserver > vncserver: couldn't find "Xvnc" on your PATH. The best way to fix this problem is to add the directory in which Xvnc resides onto your PATH variable, e.g. if the directory is /opt/vnc/bin then type: PATH=$PATH:/opt/vnc/bin and then run vncserver. You'll have to adjust your PATH like this in every new shell before you run vncserver unless you edit it in a shell startup script such as ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile. > Well this was strike 2. Like an idiot I went ahead below and removed > the file in question without first finding out what it is or does. > Bad move normally I know. But I was tired and I got "rm" and Enter > happy. Please tell me I did not screw up majorly on this one. Well, if your local desktop is still working, then you're pretty much okay. If you experience any trouble (like certain graphical apps not displaying) then simply restarting your X server will fix it. (I think you can do that from the Mandrake login screen - if there is no button, then a ctrl-alt-backspace should do the trick. Alternatively you can just reboot.) -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
