Running X on localhost using VNC

[Jonathan Morton]

>Hi,
>
>Just started using VNC - it's VERY good tool. Geat job. :-)
>
>I have three problems:
>
>[I'm using binary version of VNC on Slackware 7.0]
>
>1. I use kdm. When I connect using vncviewer from remotehost it works. But
>what I'd like is to start kdm on localhost that after machine boot I could
>log in sitting at the localhost. Now I have to run another X session and
>connect to the previous. Is it possible to do it with vnc?
>
>2. I lied: it doesn't work from remotehost: I can't proprely enter any
>character: eg: p -> u, a -> [ENTER],...
>
>3. And the last one: I use Polish fonts, but VNC uses default - how can I
>change it?
>

It sounds like you need to copy your settings from the startx script into
the vncserver script family.  I can't remember how to do this, but I'm sure
people on this list can enlighten you.  (this should be an FAQ, if it isn't
already)

To run a vncviewer on localhost, you need to know the display number of the
Xvnc server.  Normally, you would start it on display :1 rather than :0
(which is the default for a hardware-based X server).  Then your hardware
server can run vncviewer in full-screen mode (possibly even without KDE
running on it as well) and connect to localhost:1.

Hope this helps a bit...

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