Opened 13 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#3903 closed task (fixed)

Add vnc solution to BLFS

Reported by: Thomas de Roo Owned by: bdubbs@…
Priority: low Milestone: 7.6
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: medium Keywords: x11vnc vnc
Cc:

Description

x11vnc is a very simple to setup VNC-server for X.

Download: ​http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libvncserver/x11vnc/0.9.13/x11vnc-0.9.13.tar.gz

Required: OpenSSL, jpeg, Xorg

Build: tar -xvf x11vnc-0.9.13.tar.gz cd x11vnc-0.9.13 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc make make install

Config: (as user) x11vnc -storepasswd Add as first line in ~/.xinitrc: x11vnc -display :0 -loop -shared -usepw -xkb &

NB: Make sure port 5900 is not blocked by a firewall.

Change History (13)

comment:1 by Thomas de Roo, 13 years ago

Linebreaks are gone. This is what I meant: 

x11vnc is a very simple to setup VNC-server for X.

Download: 
​http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libvncserver/x11vnc/0.9.13/x11vnc-0.9.13.tar.gz

Required: OpenSSL, jpeg, Xorg

Build: 
tar -xvf x11vnc-0.9.13.tar.gz 
cd x11vnc-0.9.13 
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc 
make 
make install

Config: 
(as user) 
x11vnc -storepasswd 
Add as first line in ~/.xinitrc: 
x11vnc -display :0 -loop -shared -usepw -xkb &

NB: Make sure port 5900 is not blocked by a firewall.

comment:2 by Armin K, 13 years ago

Type: enhancement → task

We used to have Vino VNC server in the book, but I removed it when I removed GNOME. Having another one doesn't hurt.

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

This builds and installs quite easily, but does not appear to create a vncviewer program. To add this to BLFS, we would need both client (vncviewer) and server (this program).

Any suggestions for a client?

comment:4 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

Priority: normal → low

comment:5 by Thomas de Roo, 13 years ago

I would suggest tigervnc (needs fltk): 

tar -xvf fltk-1.3.2-source.tar.gz &&
cd fltk-1.3.2 &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-shared --enable-cairo &&
make && 
make install

tar -xvf tigervnc-1.3.0.tar.bz2 &&
cd tigervnc-1.3.0 &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr . &&
make &&
make install

comment:6 by Thomas de Roo, 13 years ago

That would actually also install a server: x0vncserver

comment:7 by Igor Živković, 13 years ago

I'd suggest ​http://remmina.sourceforge.net/ for the client part.

comment:8 by Igor Živković, 13 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to Igor Živković
Priority: low → normal
Status: new → assigned

comment:9 by Igor Živković, 13 years ago

Priority: normal → low

comment:10 by Igor Živković, 13 years ago

Owner: changed from Igor Živković to blfs-book@…
Status: assigned → new

comment:11 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

Milestone: current → future

comment:12 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Milestone: future → 7.6
Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to bdubbs@…
Status: new → assigned
Summary: Add x11vnc to BLFS → Add vnc solution to BLFS

I'm going to look at alternative vnc solutions, particularly tigervnc. I'll either get something working and add it to the book or mark this as wontfix.

Changing title of this ticket.

comment:13 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Added tigervnc-1.3.1 at revision 13242.

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