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fox2mike

A Quick HowTo on x11vnc

Apr 23, 2006 22:20

A quick follow-up to the last post...

So you're stuck somewhere and badly need to help your dad with something on the computer at home. I've been in this situation quite a bit and well, I've usually ended up trying to troubleshoot over the phone with minimal success. Enter x11vnc. Here's a quick guide on getting it working on Gentoo.

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Comments 4

applegoddess April 24 2006, 07:27:37 UTC

haha i used x11vnc alllll the damn time :D
i thought i was the only person on the face of this planet who did
guess not :)

fox2mike April 24 2006, 07:38:20 UTC

Yeah, now you've got company ;)

shoan April 28 2006, 04:15:48 UTC

I find the display over vnc extremely slow. There seems to be atleast a 10 sec delay before my interaction is actually visible. Both machines are part of the same LAN.

I installed vnc as server on gentoo following your instructions and used a vnc client for Mac. Haven't tried using it linux-linux yet, but I am unsure if there would be a performance difference.

Any ideas on how to speed it up?

fox2mike April 28 2006, 04:29:58 UTC

Check out the mac client options for "encoding" & "compression". This basically tries to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred over the network by compressing the same..and should make it faster.

I have no issues over the LAN, but I'm using tightvnc..and that handles compression quite well. In fact I see minimal lag when I use it over the internet as well.