x11vnc

DumbAss · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:18 am Post subject: x11vnc

Hi people,

Does anyone have any experience with x11vnc? It's a new vncserver much like x0rfbserver.
http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
If it's good maybe I'll try to install it. Emerging would be much nicer

fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

Looks really good, and better than x0rfbserver. Thanks for bringing that up...err... DumbAss!

fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

Actually, reading through the page you pointed out, it looks like x11vnc is in libvncserver, which is in portage. I'm trying to emerge it now (after copying version 0.5 to 0.6 in my portage tree).

DumbAss · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:37 am Post subject:

fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

Yup, x11vnc is in there! I wasn't successful hacking a version 0.6 of libvncserver.

Try xhost + when connected to your X11 server

DumbAss · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:59 am Post subject:

jonnymalm · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 68

Please let us know how well it works. I use XDMCP & cygwin/X server to connect to my box on my internal home lan. I find that this works great with a light wm like fluxbox.

It looks like this would be great for remote connections over the Internet, especially since you can tunnel it over ssh

DumbAss · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:42 pm Post subject:

Hi, well I tested it and it works OK. Not great OK. BUT... still a lot better than x0rfbserver or a casual vnc server. KRFB is just a little bit faster. On the other hand x11vnc is rock-stable. In the past x0rfbserver kept crashing over and over but I have had not a single crash with x11vnc. I even made a rc-script for it

One thing though ( ? ),
How do I make it run as a background service when I start it in a terminal. I used the option -bg but that didn't work for me. Anyone?

For the viewers: try it! Really!

DumbAss · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:36 am Post subject:

today I compiled the 0.6 version myself and the newest x11vnc.c that wasn't in the package. The -bg option works now and a higher compression can be achieved. I'm now trying to crash it, but I haven't managed to do it.
I'm verry happy with it. If I can figure out how ebuilds work maybe I'll make an ebuild in the future.

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

I tried to emerge x11vnc today - i am running on a PPC machine and i have accepted unstable "~PPC" but it looks like the libvncserver is stable for bot ppc and x86. These are the errors that i get when the emerge fails :

DumbAss · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

Really cool idea that pictureframe. I was thinking about that myself. If you're done could you post some pictures?

Ok, back to business. What I did was: ebuild fetch *package*
That downloaden a tar.gz. I opened it and replaced te x11vnc.c file. After that I had te do ebuild *package* digest and after that I could emerge it as an usual package.
I hope I was of any assistence.

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

I will definitley post ome pictueres if ic an get this part solved.
This is what happens when i try

DumbAss · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 8:36 am Post subject:

Well, you have done an emerge already so the .tar.gz has been downloaded already. It's somewhere in /usr/portage/distfiles/

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

Yup, i did some poking around and found the .tar.gz file. I expanded it to my /home/eric directory, opened it up, found the x11vnc.c and replaced it with the one from the x11vnc website. I tried running the

DumbAss · Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

What happens if you do:

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

when i try

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

Alright , i noticed something funny here ....
when i tried the previous operation:

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

again an update - so much good stuf can happen on a monday

DumbAss · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:33 am Post subject:

I really don't know. I searched on google but I couldn't find anything about the error message.
I suggest you check you CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf
Maybe if you use other CFLAGS it will compile.

ericpartington · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 20

alright i guess the question here is how does one emerge and ebuild? everytime i run emerge libvncserver i seem to be emerging the .tar.gz file and overwriting the files that i have changed. How did you manage to run emerge on the new ebuild digest that you created dumbass? just curious here, getting closer by the day.
thanks again for all the help

Eric

DumbAss · Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

If you do

opm8 · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 56

ericpartington,

This is the same error I got on two different boxes by using the ebuild. What I did was download the source off sourceforge and compile it myself. Worked great!

I usually download stuff to /usr/local/src, unpack it with 'tar -xvzf LibVNCServer-0.6.tar.gz' which creates a LibVNCServer-0.6 directory. In there follow the directions in the README file. It's painfully easy.

Hope this helps.

--opm8

agarthe · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

I am obviously not too bright when it comes to rc-scripts. DumbAss can you supply your rc-script? I have tried a couple of different ways to do an rc-script but each time they fail. I can start from the command line with no problems...

Thanks in advance