02-08-2008
Building an attractive, usable desktop on a budget laptop
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT
Creating a light, attractive desktop environment on a new low-end laptop using
Openbox in Ubuntu is simple and offers you most of the features you need for everyday computing without much of the load that comes with GNOME or KDE.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
vino-server
vino-server(1) User Commands vino-server(1)
NAME
vino-server - remote desktop server
SYNOPSIS
vino-server
DESCRIPTION
vino-server is a remote desktop server based on VNC protocol. vino-server provides remote desktop takeover and remote desktop view func-
tions. vino-server allows multiple client to access a GNOME desktop session remotely. It is based on the VNC technology. vino-server pro-
vides service at port 5800. Each desktop has a vino server which disabled by default and a Java client application which is made available
to a client via a web browser (via port 5900 of the server machine is the service is enabled by the user).
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/lib/vino-server
The executable file for the vino server application.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-remote-desktop |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
vino-passwd(1), vino-preferences(1), attributes(5)
NOTES
Written by Steven Zhang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
Updated by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 15 Aug 2008 vino-server(1)