VNC server

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: VNC server
started by: dukkieduk

Posted by dukkieduk on May 27 2004,20:08

Hi all,

I installed version 0.7 on my harddisk. It runs great. I used Synaptic to install vncserver, but when I try to start the server I get:
root@box:/# vncserver -geometry 800x600
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "de",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "de_DE@euro"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Can't locate File/Path.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0 /usr/share/perl/5.8.0 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver line 23.
root@box:/#

Anyone an idee what i do wrong, I checked the most common configuration files, but I don't see the problem.

Thanks for the dsl extentions, they work really great.
especially samba & openoffice!
Is there an howto to write these dsl file ?
I installed them on my harddisk by typing:
#cd \
#tar zxvf \tmp\openoffice.dsl
the desktop icon will be added, but not the menu, but this you can do manually.

Kind regards
Dukkieduk

Posted by Simbaca on May 28 2004,04:10

I'm trying to get a VNC server running, too. I think the Path.pm file is the problem because it does not exist in default DSL install (I think). The file might be in a debian package called perl-modules (or something similar). My only problem is that I can't seem to actually download and install this package through apt-get/Synaptic. I think the error that I get is that my version of Perl isn't up to date (>= 5.6.1-1), but I'm sure that the Perl in DSL is 5.8.0. Maybe I'm missing something else.

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 28 2004,04:44

The problem I have with VNC is the fact that it opens up in TWM instead of Flux, and there's no way to get it so that VNC runs on the main desktop, with all your icons and running apps. At least, not one that I've found yet.

Posted by dukkieduk on May 28 2004,08:54

I think i have a great solution, i'm still testing, but it looks great, the clue is the realvnc beta4 release, i will post a howto asap. I thinking about creating a dsl extention for it.

Dukkieduk

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 29 2004,05:20

I was just looking at that myself. It appears as though there's a way to get it onto display 0, so that you can have DSL running remote-controlled.

Time to check into that...

Posted by dukkieduk on May 29 2004,07:50

Indeed PhrozenFear,

you can control the display :0,

But i need to get some lib's installed.
one is:
libXtst.so.6
and is not included in the dsl 07, i've got it on my laptop but still it won't work. this could be a problem of the beta release, i didn't figgered it out yet.
But my display :2 & :3 are allready working with a high performance.
I 'm building a dsl extension called "realvnc4beta5.dsl" but it's not yet 100% ready for release on the web.
the links are mising, and on a clean "install " it happens that it still fails.
Any suggestions? :laugh:

regards
Dukkieduk

Posted by PhrozenFear on May 30 2004,03:39

I'll gladly try it out for ya - e-mail it to me at ve6msp@rac.ca. And I'm also gonna try and find that .so file... maybe...

Posted by dukkieduk on May 31 2004,20:42

Hello PhrozenFear,

I added this time the correct files with the correct passwords. standard for DSL.
When you want to make a connection to your dsl-server remotely there will be a password asked: damnsmall

I'm adding also a menu item and a desktop icon.That will be release v2.0

I have put the files on my website .
< http://users.telenet.be/dukkieduk > -> folow the link damnsmall

I tested the new v1.0 on my harddisk install, and for me it worked.

Kind regards
Dukkieduk

< My Webpage >

Posted by dukkieduk on July 27 2004,19:52

< dukkieduk >
Hi all,

Great news, i just finished the vnc server !!
even display :0 works.

I trogled it all together into 1 dsl package:
vnc4x.dsl
I asked John and Robert to put it on the repository.

If you have questions please post them here.

great vncing

dukkieduk
:laugh:

Posted by melange8272 on July 28 2004,12:42

dukkieduk,

I didn't see the new version of the vnc server on your website.. the version there said it was for 0.7.1 (I'm downloading .7.3 now...) Do you have the new version of your dsl file available for download?

Posted by dukkieduk on July 28 2004,21:45

Sorry, i didn't updated my private website yet, but instead i posted the dsl to th repository, it is waiting until it is published there, but is will also make it available from my website. give me 24hours to arange that.

Kind regards
Dukkieduk