VNCserver XDM on Startup?

[Jon Moss]

Thank you for the insigts and suggestions.  I will experiment some more.

Jon

> On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:41 pm, David Nicol wrote:
>
>> umm, man inittab?
>
>> I tend to put start-up things in inittab rather than in /etc/rc.d/
>> start-up scripts, but that's just me.
>
> When configuring a service to start at boot by default, I usually use
> chkconfig to add it to the default runlevel.  This is assuming that
> there's a
> startup script in /etc/init.d (use rc-update on gentoo).
>
> I think the real question here from Jon Moss though is about how to have
> VNCserver act as a GUI Login manager like XDM, as opposed to serving a
> mirror
> of an existing GUI session on the host.
>
>> > I have Fedora Core 3 and would like to have VNCserver autoload on
>> startup
>> > and give me a login screen when I attach remotely via SSH tunnel.
>> > Is this possible?  Can someone point me to a howto or other similar
>> > documentation?
>
> I wasn't able to get this to work, although the vnc documentation
> certainly
> implies that something like this is possible.  I was not able to do
> anything
> useful with VNCserver remotely - from the SSH connection.  It would only
> work
> when launched from a running GUI session, and it was slow enough over a
> 54Mb
> home wireless connection that I didn't really pursue it.
>
> What I was able to do was to get XDM to accept remote log-ins and
> sessions,
> and the speed was a LOT better than VNC.  The problem I ran into with this
> was that the keyboard on my laptop was not defined correctly, and I was
> unable to use any punctuation symbols - particularly the forawrd slash
> ("/")
> (nor could I type that sequence).
>
> I found a lot of useful information on this by researching Xterminals and
> the
> Linux Terminal Server Project.  We have some LUG members who work with
> Lumen
> Software and do a LOT of work with LTSP, and they were helpful.
>
> What might be easiest with an SSH connection though would be to just
> launch X
> or to launch your favorite Window Manager, either manually or via a line
> in
> your bashrc.
>
> Something to watch out for though:  If you tend to leave yourself logged
> in on
> the host, a second GUI session from a remote connection will have problems
> with locked files and competition for certain resources like addressbooks
> and
> mail files.
>