Headless YellowDog

[R. McFarlane]

At 01:38 PM 10/7/2004, Longman, Bill, had this to say :

> >          Is it possible though, using VNC to run X and then
> > connect to that
> > X display? From all that I have seen and tried, running X
> > from console is a
> > different session than from running VNCserver from console.
> >          Please tell me what I am missing, if I am.
>
>Well, I'm not sure I understand your question.
>
>You are correct that the VNC server's X session is a completely different X
>session than the console's (or any other X session on that machine). If you
>want to VNC into the *console's* X session, you'll have to ask someone else,
>because I don't know how to do that. But you can do it because the KDE and
>the latest GNOME let you do the "remote desktop" thing and it uses VNC
>services to do that. Google around for remote desktop. Look at
>kurd.sourceforge.net, too.

         Thank you for the leads! You are correct in that I am wondering 
how to do it without having to always be in GNOME or KDE on the machine itself.


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