VNC Remote Administration

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I enabled VNC remote administration in Yast because X11 is not stateless. VNC works and I arrive at a desktop but

  1. when I start Yast2 in that desktop, it displays a white window

and

  1. when I close VNC and re-connect, it doesn’t connect me to the existing session but creates a new one (presumably the old session was ended for some reason)

What am I doing wrong?

PRETTY_NAME=“openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64)”

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This is 807781 – Yast2: empty window under 12.2 KDE4.10 or XFCE 4.10 in NX or Xvnc session

As a workaround, set the environment variable QT_NO_MITSHM to 1, e.g. run YaST like this:

kdesu QT_NO_MITSHM=1 yast2
  1. when I close VNC and re-connect, it doesn’t connect me to the existing session but creates a new one (presumably the old session was ended for some reason)

That’s normal and expected.
If you enable “Remote Administration”, a new X session is started each time you connect via VNC.

If you want to connect to an existing session, run e.g. vncserver inside that session.

3

Hi,

Thanks.

I think I’ll just use X11 instead. :slight_smile: