vnc or remote desktop to a system running Fedora 25

[Patrick Mansfield]

Is there a way to VNC (or similar) to another system running Fedora 25?

Do I have to switch from XWayland to Xorg?

-- Patrick

[George N. White III]

On 7 January 2017 at 18:32, <patman(a)aracnet.com&gt; wrote:

>  Is there a way to VNC (or similar) to another system running Fedora
> 25?
>  
Do you need to see the same desktop you have when sitting at the system or
can you use a separate Xvnc server (probably with some limits, e.g., no or
limited
OpenGL)?


>  Do I have to switch from XWayland to Xorg?
>  
If you want to use x0vncserver.    Arch Linux uses TigerVNC and has
systemd, as does Fedora 24.   Arch Linux has helpful discussion of the
various options at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TigerVNC.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca&gt;
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:16:23AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>  On 7 January 2017 at 18:32, <patman(a)aracnet.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > Is there a way to VNC (or similar) to another system running Fedora 25?
>  >
>  
>  Do you need to see the same desktop you have when sitting at the system or
>  can you use a separate Xvnc server (probably with some limits, e.g., no or
>  limited
>  OpenGL)? 
Same desktop, limits are ok.

I forgot to mention, I'd tried x11vnc on my server as I'd done with FC 23 and
that
no longer worked, and everything I found implied it's not currently (and might never
be?) supported if using Wayland.

>  > Do I have to switch from XWayland to Xorg?
>  >
>  
>  If you want to use x0vncserver.    Arch Linux uses TigerVNC and has
>  systemd, as does Fedora 24.   Arch Linux has helpful discussion of the
>  various options at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TigerVNC. 
Thanks - per the above link using x0vncserver on the server and vncviewer client
worked for me to connect to an existing session.

-- Patrick

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 02:32:23PM -0800, patman(a)aracnet.com wrote:
>  Is there a way to VNC (or similar) to another system running Fedora
> 25? 
Sure - run vncserver from the tigervnc-server package on the target
system, and connect with the vinagre client (preferably using SSH
forwarding).

>  Do I have to switch from XWayland to Xorg? 
No; it'll all just work in the XWayland layer. In fact, when people are
complaining that Wayland doesn't work over the network like X does,
what they are actually complaining about is that Wayland *expects* you
to use something like VNC, rather than setting $DISPLAY and forwarding
X calls directly.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader