Re: Proposed: gnome-network

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 14:24, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 10:05, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:45, Ulrich Neumann wrote:
> > >  
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >gnome-desktop-sharing
> > > >---------------------
> > > >
> > > >A VNC server which doesn't require you to start up another X display
> > > >like other VNC servers so someone can remotely connect to your
> > > session.
> > > >System administrators, in particular, are crying out for this
> > > >functionality.
> > > >
> > > >My main worries about adding this to 2.6 are:
> > > >
> > > >+ The libvncserver dependancy. libvncserver has some real problems
> > > >around its build system etc., but the main worry is that its not
> > > >seeing enough active development that would give you hope that it
> > > >will improve much.
> > > >
> > > >+ You need to start the server from the command line manually.
> > > >
> > hmm, that's not true. It should start automatically when you select to
> > share your desktop. Doesn't this work for you?
> 
> 	Sorry, I missed that ... 
> 
> 	Does it get started on login when its enabled? That's mainly what I was
> referring to as I was looking to see how it gets activated.
> 
no, it does not get re-started with the session, if that's what you
mean. We should probably add session management stuff there to have it
re-started.

cheers