http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/90/how-to-set-up-different-window-managers-with-vnc/ Thoughts on Software Development and Engineering Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/90/how-to-set-up-different-window-managers-with-vnc/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Making screencasts with Linux @ IONCANNON Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:49:41 +0000 http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/90/how-to-set-up-different-window-managers-with-vnc/#comment-28 [...] I tried the instructions on a fedora core 5 box and found that vnc2swf requires tkinter and pygame be installed but they are both packages that are easy to install with yum. You will also need some type of vnc server running on your box. If you want to do a screencast of your current desktop you will need to use x11vnc. It will allow you to let a vnc viewer connect to your current desktop. I found that using x11vnc didn’t work that well. I’m not sure if it was the desktop I was using or what but the screencasts came out very choppy and for the most part unusable. I switched to using vncserver with a lightweight window manager and that fixed the issue. I think I like doing that better anyway because it gives me a fresh desktop to work from without all the normal extras. When you are doing a screencast it probably makes more sense to have less to look at anyway. [...] [...] I tried the instructions on a fedora core 5 box and found that vnc2swf requires tkinter and pygame be installed but they are both packages that are easy to install with yum. You will also need some type of vnc server running on your box. If you want to do a screencast of your current desktop you will need to use x11vnc. It will allow you to let a vnc viewer connect to your current desktop. I found that using x11vnc didn't work that well. I'm not sure if it was the desktop I was using or what but the screencasts came out very choppy and for the most part unusable. I switched to using vncserver with a lightweight window manager and that fixed the issue. I think I like doing that better anyway because it gives me a fresh desktop to work from without all the normal extras. When you are doing a screencast it probably makes more sense to have less to look at anyway. [...]

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