--- Joe Pruett joey@clean.q7.com wrote:

sorry i figured this out after deleting the other parts of the thread.

just run vino-preferences as the user who runs the main x display. it will have various options to enable and as soon as you do that you can get to hostname:0 via vnc. works quite well.

I tried that but it did not work, even running vncviewer on the server itself.

So, I decided to use the native X display support of realvnc using vnc.so. This solution gave me what I was after. I can connect now to the server via vncviewer server:0 and have root password access to my normal desktop in gnome.

http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/x0.html

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