[SOLVED] x11vnc woes

[bamdad]

hi all,

so i'm trying to get x11vnc working. it sort of does already. when a user has already logged in via xdm (or its visuallogin variant thingy) locally, it works fine. even 3d rendering can be used - although as expected, it looks like crap. : )

a second xdm instance (display :1) also works fine with Xvnc (no 3d rendering, though) - see below.
not to mention xdmcp with xephyr works fine too - i get a plain xdm login that way (and also no glx f course).

but when xdm has already been started but no user is logged in yet, x11vnc just hangs.

what is even more interesting is that x11vnc hangs the same way when i try to attach to display :1 (the Xvnc one), even after logging in there..

now it is pretty obvious that some do-magick is happening in /var/X11/xdm/Xlogin or Xstartup, but i cannot figure out what.

for reference, here's my /var/X11/xdm/Xservers:

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:0 secure /usr/bin/X11/X -auth /var/X11/xdm/xdm-auth-0 -bs -nobitscale -c -class TrueColor -pseudomap 4sight -solidroot black -cursorFG black -cursorBG white -depth 24
#:1 local /usr/nekoware/bin/Xvnc :1 -geometry 1280x720 -depth 24

(i tried changing 'secure' in the first line to 'local' but didn't help)
also, i'm starting x11vnc with this command:

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sudo x11vnc -display :0 -rfbport 5900 -repeat -auth /var/X11/xdm/xdm-auth-0

can someone who is an expert on this please help me out?

thanks in advance,
bamdad

[bamdad]

so i managed to solve it based on my CDE adventures in the past.. there's a line in /var/X11/xdm/xdm-config that needs to be edited thusly:

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#DisplayManager*grabServer:             True
DisplayManager*grabServer:              False

so if anyone is having similar problems, try this first. : )

also, don't forget to set -overlay in the x11vnc command line for the menus and 3d stuff to look right.

cheers,
bamdad