I used to use suse linux and the tight vnc is pre-configured so you can access the current desktop similar to a windows VNC connection. So this means the user can share his/her desktop with the vnc conection.

In mandrake this seems to not happen, I have had issues configuing and running vnc server. I have a small laptop with not much memory so when I configured XVNC, and wrote the .wmrc to KDE suddently my computer got stomped by lots of processes it seems that when XVNC starts, it tries to run KDE from scratch so I got kded running like crazy on 2 different areas from top.

This caused me to kill Xvnc to get my computer back to normal, I want to really understand how to properly configure VNC on my desktop so I can share my desktop and users also have the option of bring a new one when inserting a different terminal.

Thanks.

So far I have done this instructions with the same results:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/VNC

When I experimented with VNC under fedora, I recall the remote-viewed x-session had a single virtual desktop(?)

Anyway - you seem to want to have two machines sharing the same x-session??

I remember being able to view my vnc-server's x-session on localhost by using localhosts client over the loopback interface. There's probably a simpler way to do this... I recall that I did this to demonstrate that the vnc's desktop was in fact a eperate session and to demonstrate the versatility of X.

Anyway - the upshot was that I could watch the remote session in one of the virtual desktops on my own computer.

I can't check this now though - the other computer has gone walkabout

Do mean you want to control the exact same desktop display that when you login on the computer you see. So When you login to the computer it is display:0 so you want to control display:0 from a remote location. If so check this link out. It adds a few lines to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to show display:0 on port 5900.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gwallac...vnc-linux.html

Brian1

yes if you had used suse and you install tightvnc-server and try to access anywhere on the network, the default will be :0 meaning the same desktop as the one displayed on the suse machine. And yes you have 2 passwords one for control of it, and a read-only password.

That is exactly what I want on mandriva, unfortuantely dont have that SuSE machine anymore and cant access to the config files on the tightvnc-server.

Never had a setup exactly like that so not sure what to do. Out of ideas.

Brian1

Hold the phone:Why not?

because the computer with SuSE is gone.