Bug 804509

Summary:	Feature request: YaST module for VNC should allow x11vnc (display :0)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.3	Reporter:	Forgotten User QyZvPiaduJ <forgotten_QyZvPiaduJ>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Filka <mfilka>
Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jreidinger, mfilka
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Forgotten User QyZvPiaduJ 2013-02-19 18:20:56 UTC

The current YaST module for VNC (remote administration) allows a user to set up Xvnc, which provides a virtual display :1 on port 5901 (or :2 on 5902, etc.), allowing a parallel graphical session from remote.

Many Windows users will be accustomed to VNC allowing a remote user to "see what's happening on the [physical] monitor", in other words, remote access to display :0 through port 5900.

This can be accomplished easily with x11vnc, available as a package in the openSUSE distribution. x11vnc can run from a SysV init script, with a password file from vncpassd similar to Xvnc.

It would be great if the YaST VNC module also allowed a quick setup of x11vnc.

Comment 1 Josef Reidinger 2016-10-20 10:31:44 UTC

Hi, sorry currently there is no plan nor resources to support two backends for vnc setup. Only possible way is to replace one with other, but it have to be discussed. So if you still think it make sense to replace Xvnc with x11vnc as default backend for yast, please open feature at https://features.opensuse.org/