8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
6:59 p.m.
But VNC alone lets you view (and control) the remote desktop. What does
xOrfbserver add? I googled it and found a few pages about it,
but I don't
really understand what it does that VNC doesn't.
I have never gotten vncserver (TightVNC version) to display the remote
desktop of a running Linux box. It will display a remote windows box, and it
will create a new display on the remote box, but not display the user's
running desktop.
I have been told that the beta version of RealVNC vncserver will do this,
but it requires a recompile of XFree with some patch, so I'm not up for that
when x0frbserver does a good job.
Anyway, that's my experience.