[OpenIndiana-discuss] *sigh* remote desktop thingy

Michael Schuster michaelsprivate at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 07:53:32 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:40, Roelof van der Wal <rwl at 4top.nl> wrote:
> That was where the *sigh* came from. I don't getvthe beautiful gnome desktop in virtualbox, only the commandline.....

sounds like gdm is not running; if you run "svcs -a | grep gdm", is
the first word "online"? if not, run "svcadm enable gdm", that should
do it (provided that's all that's missing).

HTH
Michael
>
>
>
> Op 18 dec. 2010 om 01:11 heeft "Gordon Ross" <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> After you login on GNOME, see the menus:
>> System / Preferences / Desktop Sharing.
>> That enables "vino" which is a VNC server showing your (logged in) desktop.
>> Cool, eh?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Michael Schuster
>> <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 15:25, Roelof van der Wal <rwl at 4top.nl> wrote:
>>>> How can i get a remote display connection to OpenIndiana? I just got it (server edition) running in Virtualbox and I want to use vnc or another lookalike to see how the desktop looks like. Vncserver was not installed but maybe there are other preinstalled rdp-things that I am not aware of?
>>>
>>> pkg search vncserver; pkg install <result from previous>
>>>
>>> should help, no?
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>>> regards/mit freundlichen Grüssen
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