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James McKenzie

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Post by James McKenzie »

hapablap wrote:
Hello,
I want to run some program with Wine in a headless server. However, I want to access it via VNC, so I am using Xvnc (vncserver is a wrapper script) from tightvnc as a X server. But I have a problem: wine doesn't detect the display of the X server. This is what happens:


Code:

[martin@urano ~]$ DISPLAY=:1
What shell are you working with? Most of them require variables to be
exported so that other programs can access them.

Also, does either of these two programs start up the Xserver?

James McKenzie
Martin Gregorie

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Post by Martin Gregorie »

On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 13:04 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
I want to run some program with Wine in a headless server. However,
I want to access it via VNC, so I am using Xvnc (vncserver is a
wrapper script) from tightvnc as a X server. But I have a problem:
wine doesn't detect the display of the X server. This is what happens:
.../...
Also, does either of these two programs start up the Xserver?
vncserver starts Xvnc on the remote host. Its sort of a headless or
X-server. By that I mean it looks like an Xserver to programs on the
remote host. You usually start it by logging in to the remote host,
running the 'vncserver' command and logging out again.

Xvnc talks to a program on your PC, which can be running Windows, Linux,
OS X.... This program displays a desktop for the remote machine and
passes keystrokes and mouse input back to Xvnc. The client program can
be either vncviewer, if you've installed it, or an applet running in
your web browser.

HTH

Martin
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