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§ 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.

Dana - Jan 03, 2006 10:59:07 am PST #6264 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

For the curious who were following my iPod saga (probably none) I went ahead and bought an iTrip, swayed by the fact that it a) fit in my acessory case, and b) was on sale at Target.

I feel comfirmed in my belief that the Houston airways are way too crowded, but it does pretty well at 87.9, so for $20, I'm happy.

le nubian - Jan 03, 2006 11:54:48 am PST #6265 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I got the Monster one (don't know the name) for Christmas. I like that one.

Jessica - Jan 03, 2006 12:17:00 pm PST #6266 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Here's a handy tool -- compare TV sizes of different aspect ratios. (Useful for figuring out how your new flatscreen compares to your old tube.)

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