VNC or a Remote X Terminal on *nix (Slackware 10.1)

TheHeadFL · 07-22-2005, 06:58 AM

Hey all,

Is there a way that I can get VNC working on my Slackware box without me having to in and fire up X from the actual console and run it from there? I'd really like remote GUI access from my Windows box. Normally, it doesn't run X since its got no mouse/keyboard/monitor hooked to it. Just power and ethernet.

When I set up VNC, I was only able to get it to work by manually running the x0vncserver binary from the interactive X console. Then I was able to connect to it via my Windows VNC client. When I tried to start it up as a background process, it wasn't seeming to listen on any port or do anything. Anyone have experience with this?

For some of my school work before I have used PuTTY and some sort of X Server application for Windows and I would start an xterm window and run the single GUI-based application from there. But I've never seen a way to get an entire remote X desktop. Is there any way I might be able to do this instead of VNC?

Thanks

horndude · 07-22-2005, 08:25 AM

no, you have to have VNC because windows doesnt run X

between linux machines you can run remote X sessions though

fitzjj · 07-22-2005, 01:03 PM

you can run an X session on a windows box. download and install cygwin along with some X tools (dont know which ones off hand but ill have a look if you are interested).

if you ssh into your linux box you can then fire up any app you like on your windows box, including kde, so you have your slackware desktop on your pc - no real difference to working on it localy

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