[kde-solaris] kde 3.1.4 and VNC on solaris 8

[Stefan Teleman]

Just uploaded (in REQUIRED-3.1.4).

--Stefan

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On Monday 19 January 2004 13:40, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> VNC from realvnc.com does not seem to work on Solaris (found a lot
> of documentation about this on Google, along with my own
> unsuccessful attempts).
>
> However, LibVNCServer written by Johannes E. Schindelin works very
> well. I have built it a couple weeks ago and i have been testing it
> extensively between KDE's (Solaris and Linux) and between KDE and
> Windows XP, and it seems to work quite well. It is also able to
> connect to display :0, which is very nice. Kind of strange to see a
> Windows XP desktop on a Sun. :-)
>
> As far as VNC on Windows XP goes, i have been using the binary
> Win32 VNC build from realvnc.com.
>
> I even have a Sun pkg built for LibVNCServer 0.6. I will upload it
> today (it's not very big). To install it, the usual pkgadd, it
> installs under /opt/fsw4sun/*. There is a simple shell script named
> 'runVNC' (in /opt/fsw4sun/examples/) which is a sample startup
> shell script -- it needs very few tweaks to work on your machine.
> To use authentication, you can use the 'storepasswd' binary which
> comes with LibVNC.
>
> --Stefan
>
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>
> On Monday 19 January 2004 13:23, Missner, T. R. wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone had any luck getting VNC to work with KDE 3.1.4 on
> > Solaris 8? I had VNC working with kde 2.x on a different machine
> > but when I try to get it to work with kde 3.1.4 the VNC screen
> > goes blank after 'configuring peripherals'.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have checked all the permissions on the various directories KDE
> > and VNC use in /tmp and all seem ok.  I have tried with brand new
> > users that have no dt settings or .kde directories and always it
> > goes blank after configuring peripherals.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried commenting out all the sound stuff in the startkde script
> > ( I was thinking maybe it was having trouble with the sound
> > drivers ), again no luck.
> >
> >
> >
> > I can't get krdc to work either.  The process will run and I have
> > verified it is listening on port 5900 but when I try to connect
> > via a vncviewer it just hangs.  Tried to use the built in client
> > ( kr?? ) but the connect button was always greyed and disabled
> > even after an ip was typed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Also I have VNC working on the same machine launching either CDE
> > or GNOME.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > T.R. Missner
> >
> > Senior Software Engineer
> >
> > Softswitch Integration and Development
> >
> > Level (3) Communications

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Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman at nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python