How do I configure my VNC server and viewer to remotely view an xvfb (X virtual frame buffer) on a Linux machine?
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Any insight into why this got downvoted? – emery Mar 26 '16 at 07:03
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I voted to reopen this but it may in fact be a duplicate; the only difference is that this is asking specifically how to configure xvfb wit x11vnc whereas the other question is asking how to make an xvfb screen visible in a more general sense, and one of the answers suggests x11vnc. – emery Mar 29 '21 at 21:11
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With root SSH access to a Linux/*nix server with a pre-existing shell script to open an xvfb desktop I want to view and interact with it over VNC.
On Fedora 22, do this by installing x11vnc: www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc There was no yum or dnf package for x11vnc in Fedora 22, so I downloaded its C source code and installed it from the Shell:
A list of the required compiler and -devel packages for RedHat/Fedora and Ubuntu/Debian is at http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.html#faq-build --but the list is incomplete! You also may need:
Remote SSH commands on the xvbf host
yum install -y libXtst-devel
tar -xzvf x11vnc-0.9.13.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install
x11vnc --version
Local vnc viewer commands
yum install tigervnc
vncviewer -via root@myserver.com
ps -ef|grep Xvfb
Get xvfb display number from the command line
Syntax includes a colon followed by the display number myserver.com:0
