[ltp] using vncserver for presentations on T40

[Nick Rout]

I have read this email several times, and cannot figure out what you are
doing:

why do you need vnc? whats wrong with the x session you already have?

if its the wrong resolution, why not startt another X session at another
resolution and use that.

Back to your situation:


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:51:53 -0500
Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> wrote:

> 
> Here are my problems with this setup:
> 
> 1) the keyboard focus never comes back to my main screen until I kill
> the vncserver.  The mouse does switch focus correctly - this is a major
> problem for me.
> 
> 2) I want to be able to run commands to display in the vnc x server but
> can't find any way to do that

you need to set the DISPLAY variable, like this:

DISPLAY=whatever command

> 
> 3) The external display gets an instance of my normal window manager
> (gnome's metacity)... I don't want that to happen but I can't seem to
> avoid it. Essentially, Iwant the window manager to be vncviewer :3.
> 
> 4) When I run "xrandr -d :0.1" display :0.0 gets corrupted.... I have to
> drag some windows around to force a redraw (probably a driver issue)
> 
> 5) If I don't start X with the external display connected xdpyinfo shows
> only one display.  It'd be really nice to just walk into the
> presentation room, unsuspend, and run presentation.sh foobar.sxi. Right
> now i have to log out and restart X before i can present.  This is not a
> huge problem since I rarely restart X and i can just take care to always
> start with an external display connected.
> 
> Does anybody else who uses this type of config have solutions for these
> problems ?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> brad
> 
> 
> 
> 
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