Post #3522790
2026-07-01 10:38 UTC
Right after the XDMCP class diagrams, there's a secton on VNC server support. lightdm has a VNC proxy delegator thing built in!
So fornicate systemd, I just need to add a stanza to lightdm's configuration to listen on port 5901 and call Xvnc. Which I did. And it worked in just a few tries. Success! Tuesday afternoon, maybe 10 hours after I started.
Rebooted a couple of times to verify it's really working, and it is. So now I can move on to the next thing.
10/N
#LightDM
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-01 10:44
I have to mention that while I was doing this, I decided to set up VNC between two Macs, just to verify the Mac was going to be a VNC client. It was a two minute job, and an Apple support page spelled out every step, correctly and unambiguously. But oddly, nobody nowhere could tell me how to write a URL for the second display. I found it by guessing. (It's vnc://hostname:5901 .) END RANT (for now) 11/N #MacOSIsGuiltyToo #ButLessEgregiouslyGuilty