[wellylug] Starting VNC on boot

[Nigel Roberts]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 at 11:47:55 +1300, Pete Black wrote:

> 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.

I didn't know that, might give it a go.

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

I don't know about that, I've always found X11 to be far more
responsive than (tight)VNC, especially on slower machines.

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

Yep, me too, pity the only server implementation is kind of
expensive. Hopefully those rumours of a KDE effort to release a free
version come true.