From: valtul AT demos DOT su (Valery Tulnikov) Subject: RE: Xvnc setup (was Free Win32 X servers) 20 Oct 1998 08:40:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <199810182048 DOT NAA14463 AT coyote DOT rain DOT org> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Cc: Xvnc cygwin package works as the same on any Un*x boxes. So you have just read Vnc FAQ at Vnc website for detailed instructions. The main difference is that my Xvnc package could be use as an alternate X-server if you use it with the native WinVNC or Java viewer. The short installation and using instruction: 1. Unpack package to /usr/X11R6.3/bin or /usr/X11R6.4/bin directory. You should install X11 distribution package. How? Read detailed instruction at the excellent da Silva's page; 2. Install Perl from Qub; 3. start Xvnc server by 'vncserver' at the bash shell. Provide and verify password when asking; 4. Xvnc create .vnc directory in your $HOME. If you experienced some errors analyze the *.log in this directory - usually it's self-explanatory. 5. If you hate twm you could change it by providing another WM at ..vnc/xstartup file in your $HOME (I like WindowMaker, but not recommend it for Vnc due to exceeding graphics, use mwm or something similar instead). 6. From client: run either Winvnc or Java applet viewer and provide 'your.hostname.com:display_number', where display_number is the number of display that Xvnc use (you see the display number either from *.log file or from information seeing when Xvnc started. That's all! Additional notes: a) If you'd like to use a Java applet you could copy classes directory to /usr/local/vnc/classes from either VNC source distribution or from any of Un*x binaries. b) If you experienced problems with fonts (in *.log you see messages that no fonts are found) you need additionally install X11 fonts (it's not compiled under Cygwin, but you could simply copy it from any Un*x box. Don't miss to rebuild its by doing 'mkfontdir" at each of the font directory. c) All directories I mentioned should be added to $PATH variable. P.S. Thanks for opportunity to write all of this - I try to update my page soon (maybe when b20 distribution is released) adding this explanation and maybe some new stuff. Btw, is it interesting for anyone that I could incorporate compression patch to Xvnc Cygwin port? It could significantly improve performance. With best regards, Valery Tulnikov, valtul AT demos DOT su http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul ---------------------------------------------------- I have Xvnc on my linux box at work and I run the vncviewer on my windoze box; it works great. However, I'm not sure how to do it with Valery's package (all on one machine with the Xlib stuff, cygwin, and the Xvnc port). Xvnc is called from a perl script, so I got the cygwin perl package from Qub, but I'm not sure what to do next. Valery: What do I do with the classpath stuff in the vncserver script? Do I need to get the linux Xvnc package and extract those files? What about a window manager? (Xvnc uses twm by default, but I switched to fvwm on the linux box) Could you give us a brief setup howto that describes the required packages, tweaks, etc? (or does anyone else have this combination working?) Thanks in advance, Steve Arnold ************************************************************* Steve Arnold sarnold AT earthling DOT net http://www.rain.org/~sarnold Fatal error: MS Windows detected, deleting DOS partition... - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".