On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:13:35 +0530, "sagar n" <sagar.1986@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > *It is not totally headless, sorry, it doesnot have a keyboard or > mouse. But it does have a monitor which I use to watch media. So, I > want to connect via vnc/anything and get to control it. > > So display:0 connection is crucial. I looked at nomachine, but I dont > think it has :0 connection. As of now, I am trying to speed up x11vnc > by looking at its various options. Since it polls, I am not sure if I > can achieve any decent speed boost. > > Thank you > Sagar N > > On 12/28/08, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:23:46 +0530 >> "sagar n" <sagar.1986@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> ... >>> I want to connect to display:0 of a headless box remotely. >> If it's PHYSICALLY headless, what is the reason to use namely :0 anyway? >> >>> In any case, is there an alternative way to connect >>> to display:0 remotely? >> Personally I use nomachine [1]. Although this is not the answer to your >> question (it's not display :0 connection), but works very fast. >> >> # pacman -S nxserver >> # pacman -S nxclient >> >> The client is available for different platforms. >> >> Cheers, >> Sergey >> >> [1] http://www.nomachine.com >> >> You might want to look at x2x Basically you run the following: On the Server: xhost +desktop_hostname On your machine: x2x -to servershostname:0.0 -west You just need to change exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp to exec /usr/bin/X in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (I did it both for the host and client machines)