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I have a VNCServer (vino) configured on my Ubuntu 8.10 box. I would like to connect to this server from a vncclient running on this same machine (the reason for doing this strange thing is mentioned below).

Understandably, when I connect to a vncserver on the same box, my vncclient shows recursive windows.

Is there a way I can connect to the vncserver on the same machine and not have the recursive windows problem? Perhaps if I could start the vncserver on one display and the client on another display then will it work? How can I do something like this?

Note - Reason for running vnc client and server on the same machine: When I start our Java Swing unit test suite, a bunch of swing UI's are created and destroyed as the tests run. These windows fly in the foreground making it impossible to work while the test suite is running. I am hoping to start the test suite within a vncclient so that I can continue working while the tests run.

Update

Some searching seems to suggest that I can start a process on another display. I tried doing this to start vncviewer on another display.

export DISPLAY=:1
vncviewer localhost:0

but I get an error -

Error: Can't open display: :1

Does anyone know why I get this error message (I am running Ubuntu 8.10)?

Parag
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  • Have you considered Xvfb or xephyr? –  Mar 29 '10 at 10:52
  • you get the error message because you don't _have_ another display. use xvfb or xephyr to _get_ another display. –  Mar 31 '10 at 01:32

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Use Xvfb or Xephyr to create another (virtual) display and then tell your application to use that display.

Forget about VNC.

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Use Xnest:

Xnest :1.0 &
DISPLAY=1.0 xlogo
Mircea Vutcovici
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