help on VNC

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 17:24:54 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, yu huang <hybryant at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I tried to use VNC to remotely connect to my ubuntu. Originally I didn't
> find the command vncserver
> so I install one. After that I found the port 5900 is already occupied by
> ubuntu, with its own support to vnc.
> I was wondering how can I change the geometry of the default vnc supported
> by ubuntu.
>
> Because when I use the vncserver installed, I can use vncserver :1 -geometry
> 800x600 to setup the geometry,
> but for the one provided by ubuntu (enabled by allowing remote desktop), I
> can not and when I connect with
> vncviewer, the geometry looks not good.

Not a solution, but a clue - the default vnc server application is
called vino-server
There is no man page :-(
Perhaps some googling on that will get you somewhere.

Brian




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