VNC (Re: [plug] win4lin - debian and 2.4 kernel)

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:

> I have not yet used vnc but I understand that I can view the output of an 
> X desktop on another networked X system as a desktop on the remote 
> system, if so and there was a win4lin session in main systems desktop 
> would it not be viewed and controllable on the remote system?

You don't need VNC for that.

VNC is useful if you wish to view the entire X desktop from a non-X
machine.

Also, the VNC server on Linux works differently to the one on Win32 - it
will not export your current X session, you need to create a whole new one
with Xvnc as the X server.

But, if you only wish to view one application on another X server, you can
use the $DISPLAY variable and the appropriate shuffling of magic cookies
with xauth to achieve this.

Search the archives for more info on how to do that.

 - Matt