On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 02:49, Chuck Zmudzinski <brchu...@netscape.net> wrote: > On 9/7/2022 12:13 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
> > I use the tigervnc-standalone-server which is in the Debian packages > > archives. I use it only on a trusted LAN network so I don't need an > > encrypted vnc connection either, and I can access it remotely from the > > Internet by connecting to the LAN using a VPN (I use strongswan/IKEv2 > > for the VPN server). The main configuration files are at ~/.vnc, and > > there are tools to configure it such as vncpasswd. The most important > > configuration file is ~/.vnc/xstartup, where you launch your DE or > > window manager of your choice. > > You can launch the server from a terminal logged in as an ordinary user > > and the server runs as an ordinary user in the background so after you > > start the server in a terminal you can exit that terminal session. > Actually, you *should* exit that terminal session, especially if it is > a terminal window running in the same kind of session (gnome, lxde, etc) > and as the same user that you plan to run in the VNC server. This is > another limitation of the tigervnc-standalone-server: it does not connect > to an already running X11 session but instead launches a new session as > an ordinary user as specified in ~/.vnc/xstartup. > I have found that if I try to run two sessions as the same user, one over > VNC and one on the local desktop, it does not work too well, at least > with the current version of gnome, probably because there is not good > enough separation of the various user processes that gnome starts for > each user session. Hi, Regarding your final sentence, I wonder if installing dbus-x11 instead of dbus-user-session would improve that situation. Because of what I read in the 'Description' in the output of 'apt show dbus-user-session'.
