{"id":71,"date":"2007-08-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sp2hari.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T08:56:42","slug":"recording-your-screen-in-solaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/25\/recording-your-screen-in-solaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording your screen in solaris :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recording your screen in Solaris works right out of the box. All you need to install is vncserver and vnc2swf.<\/p>\n

A simple HOW TO about recording your screen in Solaris. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

First you need to install Vncserver. Solaris by default doesn’t come with a VNC. The easiest way to install VNC is through pkg-get<\/p>\n

root@home# pkg-get -i vncserver<\/span><\/p>\n

Before running that command, configure your pkg-get to get the packages from blastwave.org. Check <\/span>http:\/\/www.blastwave.org\/howto.html<\/a> to get more details about setting up the repo.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span>That should install vncserver. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Next step it to install vnc2swf.
\n<\/span> Download the C version of vnc2swf from <\/span>http:\/\/www.unixuser.org\/%7Eeuske\/vnc2swf\/index.html<\/a>.
\n<\/span> Extract the tar ball<\/span><\/p>\n

hari@home:~$cd vnc2swf
\nhari@home:~$.\/configure
\nhari@home:~$make
\nroot@home#make install<\/p>\n

The commands mentioned above will install vnc2swf . \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

All you need to do to use vnc2swf is to start a vncserver. vnc2swf just needs the output file name to be passed as command line argument when started. Pressing F8 gives the options to start, stop, pause and clear the reocrding. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


\nSome of the issues i faced are \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. When the same user tries to start a gnome-session in the vnc, an error message saying gnome-session is already running is given. So the best bet is to create a new user and start the vncserver of that user.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2. The icons are not displayed properly if you login into the new user’s account using GNOME. Use Common Desktop Environment (CDE) to login and start a vncserver. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n


\n3. By default, the new user won’t have a .vnc folder. So start a vnc and kill that. Now you will have .vnc folder with a xstartup file. Modify the file so that gnome-session runs in the vnc instead of the default twm. The xstartup file should look like<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh<\/span><\/p>\n

\/usr\/openwin\/bin\/xrdb $HOME\/.Xresources
\n<\/span>\/usr\/openwin\/bin\/xsetroot -solid grey
\n<\/span>\/usr\/openwin\/bin\/xterm -geometry 80×24+10+10 -ls -title “$VNCDESKTOP Desktop” &
\n<\/span>#\/usr\/openwin\/bin\/twm &
\n<\/span>gnome-session &<\/span><\/p>\n

And yeah, what i recorded can be viewed at http:\/\/download.freedesktop.org\/ldtp\/movies\/screen2.html<\/a>. Nice right \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recording your screen in Solaris works right out of the box. All you need to install is vncserver and vnc2swf. A simple HOW TO about recording your screen in Solaris. \ud83d\ude42 First you need to install Vncserver. Solaris by default doesn’t come with a VNC. The easiest way to install …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sp2hari.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}