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The instructions above may give you a window of a different size
or shape to the one you want, or one with an unfamiliar window
manager or with initial applications different from your
preferred ones.
The following tips can be used to modify the way VNC works.
- Window geometry:
Geometry of the VNC window can be specified in the normal X fashion,
i.e. as a command line flag like -geometry 600x900,
either as an option to vncserver
(which affects the shape of the display itself)
or as an option to vncviewer
(which affects the window the display is shown in --
if the window is too small for the display it will have scroll bars).
- Startup applications:
When started with the vncserver command the VNC server
executes the script .vnc/xstartup
(created the first time vncserver is run)
in your home directory.
By default this starts one xterm and the
twm window manager.
By editing .vnc/xstartup this behaviour can be modified;
by copying or linking your .xsession or .xinitrc to
it the VNC window can be given the same behaviour as your
normal X session.
- Leaving the server running:
It isn't necessary to kill the VNC server at the end of a
session, or indeed ever; the only important thing is
not to leave an ever increasing number of unused servers
running on the system.
If it's more convenient, you can simply close the VNC viewer
window at the end of a session, and next time you wish to
use it start vncviewer again, without having to
rerun vncserver.
Much more information on configuration and options can be found
at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/.
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Using VNC to display Starlink graphics applications
Starlink User Note
Mark Taylor
1 July 1998
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk