[OpenIndiana-discuss] Added a page on the wiki about using Xvnc for multiple simultaneous graphical logins.

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Yes, absolutely; these are one-shot sessions: Not useful for say getting 
on to a compile server and unthinkingly starting lots of compile 
sessions in a twisty little maze of terminal windows.

What I would myself really like is to have a combined form: the 
automatic niceness of the scheme I presented combined with persistent 
sessions that can be identified and reattached in a vnc viewer app.

Ther persistent session form can still be obtained in the traditional 
way, login, start vncserver in the background, go back and start a vnc 
viewer tool. Security seems less than perfect then.

The two ways complement each other.

On 2013-03-29 12:20, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>> From: Hans J. Albertsson [mailto:hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se]
>>
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.7+Remote+Graphical+Login:+Using+Xvnc+
>> and+gdm
> That's interesting ... So correct me if I'm wrong, you VNC to your server on 5900, and you get a login prompt as if you were sitting down in front of the physical console.  Every new connection to 5900 gets a new login prompt, so you don't have to consume more ports (5901, 5902, etc).
>
> But if your VNC client crashes for some reason, what happens?  I'm guessing the VNC session dies and all the programs inside it die too.  There is no session manager; when you login to 5900 you can't reconnect to a previously existing session.  Right?
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