[NTLUG:Discuss] vncconfig equivalent in SuSE

[Rick Cook]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 15:21, David Simmons wrote:
> Guys,
>
> On one of my systems, it's a headless setup that I VNC into (switched
> to SuSE 9.2).  In Fedora, there was a command called "vncconfig" that
> you could run that would facilitate clip-board transfers from host to
> remote.  Any equivalents in SuSE?

Since you seem to be interfacing two Linux machines, is there any specific 
reason you are using VNC for this interface? In similar situations, I 
typically use an X11 based solution. Since I am also relatively paranoid, 
I usually tunnel whatever I am doing through ssh.

For instance, at this moment I am exporting a kontact client from my 
normal home desktop machine to my laptop in the Living Room using=>

	ssh -f -X g4dual.localnet kontact


If you want a more "VNC" like experience, you could set up the server with 
an xdm/gdm/kdm display manager set up to allow remote connections. You 
could then set up the Xserver on your other machine to connect to the 
remote display manager. For instance, in your Xservers file, add a 
"-query <server>" option to the ":0" local server invocation.

Note that <server> should be replaced with your server's actual hostname. 


Good Luck,

Rick