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

[Hans J. Albertsson]

And for the twisty little terminals and cli compiles or sysmgr tasks, 
screen can help of course.
On 2013-03-29 14:29, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> 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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