Post #3522791
2026-07-01 10:31 UTC
I DuckDuckWent around a little for lightdm + vnc info, and I found some internal design documents for lightdm. Right next to the XDMCP -- no, really! Check this out! XDMCP! As Obi-Wan himself said, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. Probably since about 1995.
https://deepwiki.com/canonical/lightdm/4-remote-access#xdmcp-protocol-support
But I digress.
9/N
#XDMCP #ThisIsRealRetroComputing
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@kbob@chaos.social 2026-07-01 10:38
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