Add vnc solution to BLFS

[Thomas de Roo]

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.

[Thomas de Roo]

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.

[Armin K]

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

[bdubbs@…]

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?

[Thomas de Roo]

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 

[Thomas de Roo]

That would actually also install a server: x0vncserver

[Igor Živković]

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

[bdubbs@…]

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.

[bdubbs@…]

Added tigervnc-1.3.1 at revision 13242.