on Sun, Apr 21, 2002, Martin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2002 5:38 am, hanasaki wrote: > > How can VNC server, on Woody, be setup to drop into the GDM and/or XDM > > login screen? It is coming up already logged in with the id of the > > process runing vncserver. > > > > Thanks, > > Hanasaki > > The VNC server can run from inetd bringing up a [xkg]dm login prompt > when someone tries to connect to that port. The functionality was > absorbed into VNC proper in 3.3.3r2, so Woody should be fine. This > link[1] is still the best (only?) documentation on the feature found > going through the VNC site (Contributed...Modifications and > add-ons...iXvnc). > > [1] http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm
Note that _w_dm is not on this list. The Wings Display Manger has a
known bug that prevents it from being used to create an auto-launching
VNC session.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109712
Peace.
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