VNC
More MythTV: Openbox, VNC, and irexec
EPKPhoto — 15 July 2007 - 2:28pm
I made some more modifications to my MythTV system.
It is now running Openbox as its window manager...much lighter than metacity and all the gnome accessories. I mostly followed the guide here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV/Install/Server/Frontend
With the new Openbox config, I had to find a different way to enable a vncserver for remote access to the gui. I did this with x11vnc. To get it running, I followed some pieces of
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/x11vnc
Mac OS X VNC clients suck
EPKPhoto — 16 June 2007 - 4:22pm
With the recent upgrades to Fedora 7 I have done on several systems, I have become more aware of the terrible state of VNC clients on Mac OS X. The issue arose when I set up Remote Desktop (vino) preferences on the Fedora 7 systems. The VNC client on other Fedora 7 systems and the Tight VNC viewer on Windows have no problem connecting to Fedora 7's vino server. I have found that the VNC viewer in Fedora Core 6 and any VNC client on Mac OS X throw back an "Authentication failure" when connecting. After typing in the target computer's hostname, the password prompt appears as usual.
