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Review of VNC for Linux on the iPaq

VNC is a remote access and desktop sharing application developed oroginally at AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge. The version for the iPaq was formerly available from Klaus Weidner at http://www.w-m-p.com/ipaq/fbvnc.html.

Installation

You can run VNC after starting up with X normally. However, this means you have two X servers and two window managers running. To fix the situation so only the VNC server and one window manager are running, you'll have to edit /etc/init.d/x. Mine now looks like this:

# start off server in conventional location.
#       Xipaq -screen 240x320@270 -dpi 100 &
#       bl 1 1 32                           
                 
# Run VNC instead of X
        vnc &         
        DISPLAY=:1.0
                    
        if [ -f /etc/xcalibrate.conf ]; then
                echo "Restoring touch screen calibration"
                /usr/X11R6/bin/xcalibrate -cal `cat /etc/xcalibrate.conf`
        fi                                                               

        ## put the display in portrait mode
#        xrandr -o left                            

#       x-window-manager &

Processes

fbvnc is the VNC framebuffer:

fbvnc 127.0.0.1:1

Xvnc is an X client that allows access via VNC.

Last modified on 7 Sep 2020 by AO