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	cddiede	2010-03-24 , 10:18
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Originally Posted by atikin

Mine does not work. When launching x11vnc it just starts and quits (I guess, because it gives no message just the desktop reappears). When trying to reach the n900 from my mac with Remote Desktop application it is said that n900 is vnc capable but no luck to connect...
What can be wrong here? In the meantime all other PC connectivity parts seem to work good

You should really start this from the command line. The GUI launcher is just awful.

Try this command as a normal user in the terminal:

nohup x11vnc -forever&

After this you should be able to close the terminal and the vnc server will keep running. To verify that the server is up, just open a new terminal session and type this:

ps -ef | grep vnc

And then you'll see your x11vnc session, if not, that means it exited or crashed, so you can just re-start it with the first command.

An event.d script will start it automatically when you start the phone, I can post the event.d script I use for VNC if you're interested.

The only problem I've found is that the vnc server likes to exit/crash when you change network connections or go offline.

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