If you are a minimalist, or simply testing, however, it is sufficient to have yum install a simple XTERM client: yum install xterm XFCE is more light-weight than Gnome or KDE and available from the "extras" repository. Other popular desktop environments are "KDE" and "XFCE-4.4". You can use the command yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" to install the Gnome Desktop and requirements, for example. Make sure to install a window manager in order to get a full-featured GUI desktop. You can use the command: yum install vnc to install the client if: rpm -q vnc shows that it is not already installed. If the server is not installed, install it with the command: yum install vnc-server The result will be either package vnc-server is not installed or something like 4. The server package is called 'vnc-server'.
#Vnc server connect how to
This HOWTO shows you how to configure VNC using the 'vncserver' service as supplied by CentOS. There are several ways to configure the vnc server. Your workstation ( Linux or Windows ) is only displaying a copy of the display ( real or virtual ) that is running on the remote machine. Unlike a remote X connection, the xserver is running on the remote computer, not on your local workstation. VNC is used to display an X windows session running on another computer.