Re: tiger vncserver continues running after exiting desktop

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

> I enter in the raspberrypi4 server machine from the client machine
> using ssh and I start the server normally with $vncserver command. Then
> I connect to the machine using tigervncviewer, XFCE4 session or CTWM
> session, result is the same. When I exit XFCE4 or CTWM desktop,
> vncserver  session continues running

That's how X servers work: unless something kills them, they continue to run.
vncserver (the one in /usr/pkg/bin) has an `-autokill' switch for this.

> and I must kill it with
>
> $vncserver -kill :1

That's what `-autokill' does.

> I have vncserver also in a Debian GNU/Linux machine and when I exit
> desktop vncserver is automatically terminated. I do not understand why I
> get different behaviour in NetBSD.

Linux uses a different vncserver script which runs Xvnc the usual way, ie.
using xinit, and xinit, as the man-page explains:

       When  this  first  client  exits, xinit will kill the X server and then
       terminate.

therefore, it works on Linux. You can see this script in

/usr/pkg/libexec/vncserver

but, it's not usable on NetBSD without a bit of fiddling, it looks like. God
knows why it's included in the package. Same for the vncsession-start script
in that dir.

HTH,

-RVP