Bit depths in X

[Dan Coutu]

Mark Komarinski wrote:
> VNC is nice in that I could have it start up a DTE different from the main
> display.  But that was a bad thing, as now the users had to fight with
> GNOME/KDE and FVWM.  The bigger problem is I had to show them to start
> VNC, connect to the proper display, and then (important!) shut down
> VNC when they were done with it.  These are postdocs who stay logged in
> for weeks at a time.  I had visions of 150 VNC sessions running at once.

Are you saying that you have 150 different people needing to use VNC?

If you have a manageable number then you can do this: At system startup 
time create a VNC server for each individual user. So Joe gets display :0, 
Ann gets display :1, Mary gets display :2, etc. Each one can be setup to 
require the user to login in order to access their display, this helps to 
enforce people using only their own assigned server. Then if they wish to 
stay logged in for weeks at a time it's no big deal.

Another advantage to this method is that each user can have their session
customized to to their own preferences (screen resolution, applications
that run at login time, window manager, etc.) The command line for starting
the VNC server is amazingly flexible.


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