[NTLUG:Discuss] Request for 'Improving SuSE Professional' Part II

[Rick Cook]

On Friday 11 March 2005 14:06, David Simmons wrote:
> Was hoping to share some experiences and make some request's to improve
> my 'SuSE Experience'....having recently shifted main email computer to
> SuSE 9.2 Professional.
>
> EXPERIENCE:  Was having a hard time getting VNC to connect.  Normally
> my email machine is 'headless' and I VNC into it...worked like a charm
> with Fedora - was getting weird responses when using Suse (would
> connected to :1 window, could see that Xvnc was running on system) -
> but no screen would pop-up.  COULD connect through the browser version
> (ie. :5801)....but confused as to why client connections were a
> 'no-go'. Lucking some trouble-shooting time with Ralph Green revealed
> that you need to choose "OPEN USE 3.3 PROTOCAL' in the client..and it
> worked! Although I'm still hoping to find something similiar to
> 'vncconfig' which allowed clipboard exchange - suse seems to be void of
> that command.

While my main email machine is not headless, there are many occassions 
when I don't want to sit at it. For instance, right now, I am using a 
wireless connection on my laptop in my living room to remote display 
kontact from my main machine. My usual approach is to export the desired 
X-client to my local display. Since I sometimes do the same thing from a 
hotel room across the country, I have gotten in the habit of tunneling 
the process through ssh. For instance:

 ssh -n -f -X g4dual.localnet kontact

You can do the same thing with basically any X client.


Using this approach, you are not exporting a whole desktop (line when you 
use VNC). You are only exporting the particular application you are 
interested in at that moment.


Rick