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| + | * as desktop environment consider XFCE. It is lightweight yet provides a clearly guided user experience. Your .vnc/xstartup could look like this: | ||
| + | #!/bin/sh | ||
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= TroubleShooting = | = TroubleShooting = | ||
Revision as of 18:00, 21 December 2013
vnc allows you to control a computer's display over the network. It consists of a client and a server. The client is the viewer, the server provides the display.
To read on find out your distribution.
Ubuntu
Server
To set up a VNC server with Ubuntu open a console and issue
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
To start it issue the command
vncserver
To stop it issue the command
sudo killall Xtightvnc
Client
Command
vncviewer myserver:1
Hints
- as desktop environment consider XFCE. It is lightweight yet provides a clearly guided user experience. Your .vnc/xstartup could look like this:
#!/bin/sh xfce4-session
TroubleShooting
Fonts e.g. in nautilus do not work. For CentOs 6:
yum install bitmap-miscfixed-fonts
