Re: [SLE] KDE Remote Desktop (VNC) troubles - SOLVED

I managed to solve that problem and here is a procedure for anyone with
similar troubles:

- ssh to a remote server as root
- with yast install x11vnc
- man x11vnc to learn how to use it
- login as an user who is logged on KDE (su <username> )
- x11vnc -display :0
- see on which port x11vnc is listening (5900, 5901?)
- on local machine run: vncviewer <server-address>::<port>
example: vncviewer my.server.org::5901

Voila, you have again access to your server's screen.

Thanks very much to Michael and others for help!

Janko

Michael Letourneau wrote:

Michael Letourneau wrote:
[snip]
I will definitively upgrade to a newest SuSE as soon as possible but now
a have this server on a remote location, running GUI server app, so it
would be very nice to restart that VNC somehow remotelly and without
rebooting a whole server.

Some silly thinking: what about killing only that socket? Or maybe
starting a krfb on different port?


I found that it would not go away because of the crashhandler function,
and the parent of that I believe was kded, so unless you wanted to
possibly mess up the desktop you were stuck. I found no option to
starting krfb on a different port, otherwise I would have tried that, as
it seemed to be faster than x11vnc. But, I have had good luck with
x11vnc, and I can just ssh in and start it up when I need to, then when I
exit it goes away. Or if you desire you can leave it running. Nice thing
about it is that it will startup on another port if the default is busy.

Michael



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