[clug] vino process name

[Steve Walsh]

on my F10/Centos 5.3 boxen, it's /usr/libexec/vino-server, and is 
started when you tick "allow others to view my desktop" under System -> 
Preferences -> Internet and Network -> Remote Desktop

The difference between it and vncserver is that vncserver can serve a 
desktop that isn't necessarily logged in, where as vino-server is a way 
of sharing a currently active desktop for various uses (ie X display :0)..

Hal Ashburner wrote:
> Vino, I believe is the thing that allows you to share a gnome desktop 
> over the network. I can't seem to connect to the one on my laptop at 
> all, which is a pain. Trying to debug it, I don't even know what the 
> process is called.
> I believe vino uses libvncserver to create it's own vnc server rather 
> than using vncserver or similar (could be wrong though, no reason that 
> doc couldn't be totally out of date.) But what is the process actually 
> called? It clearly isn't vino-passwd or vino-preferences which are the 
> only executable I seem to have that are called anything like vino.  
> How is it started? Does it have to be in 
> "system->preferences->personal->sessions" somewhere?
> My first point of call is "is the daemon actually running?" and I 
> can't answer it. vino-settings doesn't tell me if things are working 
> or not of course. I've tried connecting from the local machine with 
> the firewall totally disabled to no avail.
> The documentation is only telling me about their grand designs to do 
> everything for everyone and what the ok button does which isn't 
> helping all that much.
> Anyone know answers or know what you do to find out?
> Cheers,
> Hal

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Steve Walsh
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