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Why X when you can VNC?

by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

Up until thisafternoon I had been using X-Win32 as a way of having a remote X session running on our development server. But I'm dumping it in favour of VNC.

VNC is a godsend. It is remarkable not just for the speed compared to remote X sessions (I had to give up using Gnome entirely), but also for its ease of installation and configuration. Had the thing up and running 5 minutes after unzipping it!

This is a handy page on setting up VNC, but beware of the line:

exec GNOME-session &

it should read:

exec gnome-session &

Also, if you prefer KDE (like me), you can use:

startkde &

instead of this line
 

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