On 20.03.2004 18:56, Russell Coker wrote:
What exactly does Xvnc do?
It starts a "virtual" X server - it does not attemts to interact with the local hardware, but it will listen on 6000+display port as a normal X server (so the clients can connect) and it will listen on the 5900+display port, so that the vncviewer clients can connect (possibly remote, possibly several simultaneously) and on port 5800+display for http requests (essentially providing a Java version of the VNC client).
Does it do the same sort of stuff as when the user runs "startx" but for remote display only?
This is different. Normally Xvnc is started by the /usr/bin/vncserver script (there is also /etc/rc.d/init.d/vncserver script which might need a separate treatment), which would first start Xvnc and then start appropriate X clients to the newly created display.
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