Comments on: n900 Tricks: Remote Control with VNC / x11vnc

By: Miro

Miro — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:38:01 +0000

Hi guys,
Couple of questions but first this is what I did:
opened x terminal
sudo gainroot
x11vnc –storepasswd
Entered vnc password
Verified the password
Write password to /home/user/.vnc/passwd? I typed Y pressed enter
Then I typed
x11vnc -forever –usepw

I also replaced the line that says “Exec=/usr/bin/x11vnc” with “Exec=/usr/bin/x11vnc -usepw”

My question is: everytime I launch x11vnc through phones menu I am not asked by RealVNC (PC) to type in my password. Also as soon as I shutdown the RealVNC from my PC I have to re-launch x11vnc from my phone. BUT!…if I type in xterm
sudo gainroot
x11vnc -forever -usepw
And then launch RealVNC (pc) I get asked to type in password before connection and I can shutdown and re-launch VNC from PC as many times as I want without loosing connection with my n900.So what is the use of having x11vnc icon in the n900 menu when I can only use it once per time if you understand my thinking?

Best regards

By: renko

renko — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:42:24 +0000

chown user:users appears to be necessary if you restrict connections as ‘root’. Thanks for this.

By: Bubble

Bubble — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:04:10 +0000

We’ve been using x11vnc for over a year now accessing serveral of our company’s debian servers running virtualbox instances. Another piece of software I couldn’t live without, haha..

One thing that I’m a little puzzled about is how to change the x11vnc password when x11vnc is already running. I’m getting a ‘XOpenDisplay(“:0.0″) failed’ error when I type x11vnc -storepassword. As if it wants to connect twice to the same display.

I’ve tried the -novncconnet option but it gives me the same error message. Is the only way to log out of my X session, shutdown XDM and start a new session from the console?

Any other suggestions I can try?

By: thenoid

thenoid — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:40:33 +0000

X11VNC is one of those things that, AFTER finding the answers, they look so easy, but BEFORE it is a hell to find alone. Very thank you for posting this.

By: Achim Elsner

Achim Elsner — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:41:34 +0000

Hi,

the advice from Forum Nokia seems to be unusable to me. They say you have to edit a file “/etc/init.d/x-server” which in fact doesn’t exist om my N900.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:39:32 +0000

It most likely isn’t crashing. There is no user interface to x11vnc – it runs in the background. Launching it a second time closes the process I believe.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:28:31 +0000

Hi mate, I have a problem with X11VNC. I installed it today but everytime i click on it to start it, it just does the circley processing thing and then it closes.