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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 14, 2013 22:17 UTC (Thu) by Serge (guest, #84957)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by Cyberax
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

> So start x11vnc and try to do it. Doesn't work.

Tried. It does. What does not work for you?

> In other words "you can't".

I just did. :)

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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 15, 2013 13:25 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

TigerVNC supports xrandr. Others don't.

Different VNC implementations support different features and there can be a vast difference in performance.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 15, 2013 20:19 UTC (Fri) by Serge (guest, #84957) [Link]

> TigerVNC supports xrandr. Others don't.

It does not matter. Shell supports xrandr. If I initially used ssh to get VNC, I can run xrandr over the same ssh session. Or I can open xterm after I connected to VNC and run xrandr there.