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tommyrot - Jan 02, 2006 12:21:11 pm PST #6254 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2006 2:17:08 pm PST #6255 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've installed Ubuntu. It was easy, and it looks pretty.
I'm trying to decide if I should keep the KVM I just bought, or run it headless. I hied my ass to RealVNC, because that's what I last used for this sort of stuff--but back in the day I didn't care about Macs. Now that I'm a three OS household, I'd like a remote desktop tool that will run to or from OS X, XP, and Linux.
Uh, for free--am I asking too much, or does anyone know of a product?
Eddie - Jan 02, 2006 2:24:56 pm PST #6256 of 10003
Your tag here.
ita, I prefer UltraVNC to the Real variety.
Regarding platform support:
UltraVNC runs under Windows™ operating systems (95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003...), but its embedded JavaViewer allows you to connect (and make File Transfers) from a simple Web Browser on any Operating system supporting Java™ (Linux, Mac OS...) to an UltraVNC server.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2006 2:29:38 pm PST #6257 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That won't help me run Ubuntu headless, though. RealVNC has a Linux server. From reading about UltraVNC it looks like it only has a Windows server.
My optimal setup is a server for each OS, and a viewer for each. RealVNC gets me 5/6 of the way there.
Eddie - Jan 02, 2006 2:37:04 pm PST #6258 of 10003
Your tag here.
Gotcha.
RealVNC from this [link] recommends this Mac OS X VNC Server [link] which gets you the last 1/6.
Edit: Here's a VNC client for OS X as well [link] .
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2006 2:45:00 pm PST #6259 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks!
NoiseDesign - Jan 02, 2006 6:43:15 pm PST #6260 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Chicken of the VNC is supposed to be good on OS X.
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2006 9:39:04 pm PST #6261 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whee! I have VNC running right on the PC (I'm on the Linux box right now, VNCed into the PC which is at my feet, so it's really quite pointless). The OS X server is being balky, but I'll hold off on that until tomorrow. Since there's the whole Chicken thing.
However, the Linux VNC server I eventually installed (not RealVNC, but whatever package Synaptic let me get at) gives me a blank screen on the PC. I do remember this before, but not how to fix it. Is it an X server issue on the Linux side? It doesn't look to be anything client side.
When I started vncserver on the Linux box, I did nothing other than give it a password. Maybe I'm missing parameters...
Back to the drawing board.
eta: I do have x11vnc working fine, but I'd like to not use the current X11 session. And damn, this way round (I'm on the PC connecting to the Linux box) is much slower.
Eddie - Jan 03, 2006 8:38:14 am PST #6262 of 10003
Your tag here.
- Checkout the logs in ~/.vnc/
- Make sure ~/.vnc/xstartup is executable (i.e. chmod +x xstartup)
- Edit xstartup and see if there are comments in there about uncommenting a couple of lines to get a normal desktop:
# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2006 8:39:51 am PST #6263 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks -- I'll check those both out when I get home.