I have an iPad (I suppose I have to say "old" iPad now) on which I use the iTeleport app as a VNC client. Using this I can very easily connect to VNC servers in a variety of OSes (such as Ubuntu, Windows XP, OS X and Haiku) on other computers on my LAN. In each case, I can immediately see the exact Desktop on my iPad and manipulate it just as if I was working on the computer with the server. However, FreeBSD behaves very differently.
I installed TightVNC in FreeBSD 8.2-Release from ports and was able to connect fairly easily to the client on my iPad (other than the fact that I had to select port 5901 rather than the usual VNC port of 5900 for reasons I don't understand). However, instead of seeing the FreeBSD Desktop on my iPad, what I saw was just an xterm terminal window.
Indeed, this is exactly what is described in this very old blog post. Also, as described in the blog post, I can launch KDE as WM in the VNC connection on my iPad. Nevertheless, all attempts to get Gnome to start on the iPad failed even though Gnome is what I use in my FreeBSD install.
Is there any reason that the VNC server in FreeBSD behaves so very differently to that in all other OSes that I have tried? How can I get Gnome to launch in the VNC connection?
I installed TightVNC in FreeBSD 8.2-Release from ports and was able to connect fairly easily to the client on my iPad (other than the fact that I had to select port 5901 rather than the usual VNC port of 5900 for reasons I don't understand). However, instead of seeing the FreeBSD Desktop on my iPad, what I saw was just an xterm terminal window.
Indeed, this is exactly what is described in this very old blog post. Also, as described in the blog post, I can launch KDE as WM in the VNC connection on my iPad. Nevertheless, all attempts to get Gnome to start on the iPad failed even though Gnome is what I use in my FreeBSD install.
Is there any reason that the VNC server in FreeBSD behaves so very differently to that in all other OSes that I have tried? How can I get Gnome to launch in the VNC connection?