[ltp] using vncserver for presentations on T40

[Nick Rout]

Just  let me get this right before i start going down the wrong track and confusing us both :-)

you want have two displays, one on the lcd of the laptop and the other on the external monitor.
The displays are to have different things on, but both controllable from sitting in front of the laptop?

On
Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:43:23 -0500 Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:51 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> > 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?
> there are several advantages to using vnc.
> 
> 1) There is no need to be concerned about xinerama problems of menus
> popping up on the wrong displays
> 2) I can't figure out how to get my kb and mouse to switch focus to a
> different x session without using xinerama
> 3) It's possible to have a small window of the presentation on my main
> screen so i can have notes on my main desktop
> 4) It's possible to see applications from the external display even
> after it is disconnected.
> 
> I should probably have referenced the original config that I based this
> on in my earlier message. here it is:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2003-November/013701.html
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > 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
> 
> That's the problem... i don't know what to set DISPLAY to... it's not
> localhost:3 . there is something funny about the DISPLAY to address a
> vncserver xsession
> 
> thanks for your response!
> 
> brad
> 
> 
> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>