I installed the vnc suite of tools (both on the remote server, as well as
the local client) where both machines run ubuntu-linux. I started the
vncserver on the server using vncserver which gives:

$ vncserver

New 'bombur:1 (karthik)' desktop is bombur:1

Starting applications specified in /home/karthik/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/karthik/.vnc/bombur:1.log

I am able to connect from the client side using:
$ vncviewer bombur:1

This however opens up an xterm and is not the desktop that is running on
bombur. I want to see the X-desktop that is running on the server. How do
I go about doing this?

Both client and server run xorg as the Xserver. Please let me know if more
information is needed to help (such as kernels/xorg versions/vnc versions
running on client/server).


Thanks in advance,

-K

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On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:17:03 -0500 (EST)
Karthik Vishwanath <karthikv [at] Alum.Dartmouth.ORG> wrote:
> I installed the vnc suite of tools (both on the remote server, as
> well as the local client) where both machines run ubuntu-linux. I
> started the vncserver on the server using vncserver which gives:
>
> $ vncserver
>
> New 'bombur:1 (karthik)' desktop is bombur:1
>
> Starting applications specified in /home/karthik/.vnc/xstartup
> Log file is /home/karthik/.vnc/bombur:1.log
>
> I am able to connect from the client side using:
> $ vncviewer bombur:1
>
> This however opens up an xterm and is not the desktop that is running
> on bombur. I want to see the X-desktop that is running on the server.
> How do I go about doing this?
>
> Both client and server run xorg as the Xserver. Please let me know if
> more information is needed to help (such as kernels/xorg versions/vnc
> versions running on client/server).
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -K
>

The vncserver actually starts its own X server, rather than connecting
to the already running X server (hence the bombur:1, rather than
bombur:0). To connect to the already running X server, you want to use
x11vnc instead of vncserver. Most distributions should include it, or
you can get its source from <http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/>.


Good luck,
Conway S. Smith

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