{"id":5272,"date":"2015-02-02T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:39:19","slug":"my-gkrellms-are-now-running-within-a-vnc-server-on-a-vm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2015\/02\/02\/my-gkrellms-are-now-running-within-a-vnc-server-on-a-vm\/","title":{"rendered":"my GKrellMs are now running within a VNC server on a VM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlie.org\/en\/Computers\/Software\/Networking\/Thin_Clients\/Virtual_Network_Computing\">https:\/\/www.curlie.org\/en\/Computers\/Software\/Networking\/Thin_Clients\/Virtual_Network_Computing<\/a> \u2013 &#8220;the big context&#8221; \u2013 just in case a nice categorisation is necessary or helpful<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VNC\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VNC<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Virtual Network Computing<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\">http:\/\/www.realvnc.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the makers of VNC<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/download\/viewer\/\">http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/download\/viewer\/<\/a> \u2013 here I got my vncviewer for Mac OS X from<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My GKrellMs are really nice graphical utilities. They even remember their positions for their next start, if you tell them to do that. But if you have like 5 of them, it&#8217;s still a hassle to get them all started \u2013 even if you have a script to achieve that task. It&#8217;s nicer, if you can simply &#8220;dive&#8221; into some environment, where they are already available for you. VNC is the basis for that kind of thing. The VNC server is a &#8220;virtual&#8221; X Window Server \u2013 &#8220;but&#8221; it&#8217;s really there and running and available at your demand \u2013 and you would attach to it through a VNC viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like this set-up a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VNC vs screen saver AKA screen locker<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only look at my GKrellMs once in a while \u2013 there is no need to touch that environment, so of course that looks like a kind of inactivity, and that asks for a screen saver operation. And yes, e<span style=\"line-height: 1.6471;\">ven my VNC environment had a &#8220;screen saver&#8221; AKA &#8220;screen locker&#8221; running initially.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6471;\">This is the KDE desktop&#8217;s section, where you configure that:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hardware \/ Display and Monitor \/ Screen Locker<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the screen saver does not start any longer after a period of inactivity within my VNC environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VNC viewer within a web browser<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t there a &#8220;<em>VNC viewer within a web browser<\/em>&#8220;, that makes&nbsp;a separate VNC viewer application (by itself) redundant? Yes, there is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My VNC server has its log file at $HOME\/.vnc\/*:*.log. There is a line saying &#8220;<em>Listening for HTTP connections on all interface(s), port \u2026<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 take that port and connect to it in your web browser! Now you only need to be able to run that Java plug-in within your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activity of non-visible applications \u2013 power consumption<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You would wish, that non-visible applications don&#8217;t really do anything. I would wish, that my non-visible&nbsp;GKrellM front ends do not pull data from their back ends. I am in fact a little pessimistic, they really do behave like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GKrellM + VNC = poor man&#8217;s monitoring<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t that really, what my GKrellMs being displayed in a VNC environment are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.curlie.org\/en\/Computers\/Software\/Networking\/Thin_Clients\/Virtual_Network_Computing \u2013 &#8220;the big context&#8221; \u2013 just in case a nice categorisation is necessary or helpful https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VNC\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Virtual Network Computing http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\u00a0\u2013 the makers of VNC http:\/\/www.realvnc.com\/download\/viewer\/ \u2013 here I got my vncviewer for Mac OS X from My GKrellMs are really nice graphical utilities. 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