Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:06:59 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        scott@sremick.net
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Restarting vino remotely?
Message-ID:  <1137514019.19291.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <17129pal9kyo$.al7nkbay2qq0$.dlg@40tude.net>
References:  <17129pal9kyo$.al7nkbay2qq0$.dlg@40tude.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--=-Gkt+vfwRDQc8VBNirJ66
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:36 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> Good morning... for some reason, vino is not currently running on my home
> PC (I suspect a portmanager update killed it and it did not restart). Xor=
g
> and Gnome are still running however (I have an X desktop going on the loc=
al
> machine at home). I can still ssh in just fine, but I've never solved the
> mystery on how to restart vino-session remotely without it kicking errors=
.
> It always seems to want to be launched from a terminal session on the loc=
al
> PC console. Is there a trick to this?
>=20
> To be clear: I'm not trying to forward X sessions over ssh. I forward VNC
> over ssh using vino as the VNC server. This works better for my needs.
>=20
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
> Gnome 2.12.2
> Vino 2.12.0
> Xorg 6.8.2
>=20
> Any suggestions?

It won't work unless you've done an xhost + on your console, but you can
try setting your DISPLAY to :0.0, then running vino.

Joe

--=20
PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc

--=-Gkt+vfwRDQc8VBNirJ66
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQBDzRYjb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgHsAJwPkGA70acCVsyaMR24YThNfSzW7gCfQNOn
jaxf4HhryVuXsG0pZFsIQqY=
=BUmn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-Gkt+vfwRDQc8VBNirJ66--




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1137514019.19291.0.camel>