VNC and display manager

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I understand that to get a working VNC server, SDDM cannot be used, and “you need to switch to a different display manager”.

Could anyone suggest an alternative and perhaps a guide to how to do it?

Or alternatively, is there another tool I could use for this purpose (I need to be able to view other desktops to provide support to existing users, so RDP isn’t an option).

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Try nomachine - supports linux and windows - it does require some ports to be opened to work.

It is in the standard repo’s.

I also use X11vnc and this script to run it change myuser to your username and mypassword to the password

#!/bin/bash
rm -f ~myuser/x11vnc.old
mv ~myuser/x11vnc.log ~myuser/x11vnc.old
/usr/bin/x11vnc -nap -wait 50 -noxdamage -passwd mypassword -display :0 -shared -forever -o ~myuser/x11vnc.log -bg
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Hi Larry

Sorry for the slow reply. Nomachine looks good, but I can’t find it in the standard repos. Does it have another name? thanks.

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I use RealVNC, which allows for up to 5 remotes on their free license. It run under SDDM, the default Tumbleweed/KDE setup. VNC should work with SDDM/KDE with the standard VNC packages as well, provided you are using X11. I haven’t found any VNC/Wayland packages.

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It is not in 15.5 - you can get it here: https://downloads.nomachine.com/download/?id=6 download and install the rpm
go to the download directory and
zypper in nomachine_8.9.1_1_x86_64.rpm