[wellylug] Starting VNC on boot

[Pete Black]

You can run VNC integrated into your X server - e.g. no separate X 
context, and its rather nice to access your linux GUI from a machine 
that doesn't have an X server.

X11 forwarding (even with ssh compression) is extremely slow compared to 
TightVNC etc. for many apps, so I would certainly not agree with that.

Personally, I am looking forward to seeing NX (nomachine.com) become 
more widely used, but I certainly find VNC a useful remote admin tool.



>I think most people will agree VNC sucks for remote admining linux
>machines. SSH and/or X11 forwarding is pretty much the best solution
>unless you really, really need to view the desktop in its entirety
>with out using the machine itself. I think it's a huge waste of
>resources to run a VNC server for almost any other reason.
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>On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 at 11:01:42 +1300, Michael Dittmer wrote:
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>>Hi All...
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>>I have installed the linux version of VNC Server onto my Lycoris Desktop/LX
>>box and would like to start the VNC server on boot as I would like to run
>>the box headless across my network.
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>>What file do I have to edit and what command do I have to give it (I'm
>>guessing rc.local as this is what I had to edit to get pure-ftpd to start on
>>boot).
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>>Since VNC Server uses a script to launch (and run in the background), what
>>command in the rc.local file do I need to give it (I tried the normal CLI
>>command to start it but it doesn't work).
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>>Thanks
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>>Michael
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