[clug] RFB server in Mandrake

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:12, Stephen Walsh wrote:
> Hello again Cluggers
>
> I'm trying to get rfbDrake (the remote frame buffer server for Mandrake) to
> start automatically when X is started so that I can VNC in immediately
> after restarting, instead of wheel a trolley with a monitor, keyboard and
> mouse around everytime I need to reboot (or someone unplugs the funny
> looking box on the 3rd floor so they can charge their mobile or listen to
> the radio). I've already got a user automatically logging into the X
> session which can sudo if needed.
>
> anyone got any suggestions?

Couldn't you just start it as a service for runlevel 5?  Just set up a simple 
start script, and do the appropriate symlinks.

Alternately, since it sounds like this is over a lan, you could drop VNC 
altogether, and just use Cygwin/X. (I'm assuming that you are connecting from 
Windows, since otherwise what is wrong with ssh -X).  A huge number of 
improvements have been made to the port of X to Cygwin over the last 12 
months or so.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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