Hello Guido,<div><br></div><div>thank you so much. It sounds great.</div><div><br></div><div>Now my /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf looks like:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>[SeatDefaults]</div><div>greeter-session=unity-greeter</div>
<div>user-session=ubuntu</div><div><br></div><div>[VNCServer]</div><div>enabled=true</div><div>port=5900</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>but after restarting lightdm (sudo restart lightdm) the port is not open:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>dude@box:~$ netstat -ln | grep 5900</div><div>dude@box:~$</div></div><div><br></div><div>I also tried to reboot, but the result is the same.</div><div><br></div><div>do you have any suggestion? maybe some missing package?</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Guido Berhoerster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gber@opensuse.org">gber@opensuse.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
* Alfonso Fiore <<a href="mailto:alfonso.fiore@gmail.com">alfonso.fiore@gmail.com</a>> [2011-10-18 19:45]:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> my apologies I'm not an expert, so maybe I'm wrong in looking here for my<br>
> solution, but I think it's worth a try.<br>
><br>
> In my previous distribution release (Ubuntu 10.10) with GDM I managed to<br>
> have x11vnc run at startup adding something to /etc/gdm/Init/Default.<br>
><br>
> Now, with LightDM, I have two questions:<br>
><br>
> - where can I put a hook to automatically start x11vnc to remotely connect<br>
> at startup?<br>
><br>
> and most importantly:<br>
><br>
> - why does x11vnc not run until I logged in with my user? with GDM I was<br>
> able to connect using a vnc client and get the login prompt. Now if I try to<br>
> start x11vnc it won't work until a user logged into the system. How can I<br>
> connect with a vnc client to the login prompt with LightDM?<br>
<br>
</div></div>LightDM has built-in VNC support, you can enable it with<br>
[VNCServer]<br>
enabled=true<br>
in lightdm.conf.<br>
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Guido Berhoerster<br>
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