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archtom

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Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 58

x11vnc black screen

Hey,

I have a problem with x11vnc. First of all I had a bit of trouble configuring a systems service that runs on start and works with login screen (lxdm). Thanks to the forum I found an old thread and put together my own solution with it which is working great so far and is restarting when there is an error. Hope this helps anyone. Thanks goes to the members in the old thread.

su

nano /etc/systemd/system/x11vnc_start.service

[Unit]
Description=starting x11vnc
Requires=display-manager.service
After=display-manager.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -rfbauth /home/tom/.vnc/passwd -users +tom -xkb -forever -repeat -display :0 -auth /var/run/lxdm/lxdm-\:0.auth -shared -ncache 0 -noxdamage -bg -o /var/log/x11vnc.log
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

chmod 755 /etc/systemd/system/x11vnc_start.service

systemctl enable x11vnc_start.service
systemctl start x11vnc_start.service

This is working very fine with lxdm as login manager and xfce or mate as desktop. But it is not working with cinnamon or gnome. It presents me the login screen and directly after login I only get a black screen. The connection is working and I can do anything on the screen as the original screen shows.

The client seems fine, I´m connecting from os x and tried two different clients with the same result.

The commands used to start cinnamon and gnome from lxdm are:
/usr/bin/cinnamon-session/
/usr/bin/gnome-session/

The system is running in virtualbox, latest version on os x.

If any other information is needed please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by archtom (2014-08-26 16:51:27)