vncconfig -nowin option

[Tim]

In the past vncconfig used to be started from $HOME/.vnc/xstartup so the user could tweak it to use the -nowin option. Now it looks like it was moved into the /usr/bin/vncserver script with the -iconic option. I don't really want to see an extra window in the taskbar and sometimes I even close it by accident.

Is there a way to start it with the -nowin option instead, short of modifying /usr/bin/vncserver (which may not be possible if the user doesn't have root) or playing games in the startup script to kill it and restart it with the -nowin option?

For now I chose to edit /usr/bin/vncserver but maybe there is a better way to do it.

Thanks.

[DRC]

Personally, my vote would be to modify the vncserver script that ships
with TigerVNC and make it pass -nowin to vncconfig. I don't see much
practical benefit to starting vncconfig with -iconic. All it does is
give you the ability to disable/enable clipboard transfer at the server
end once the server is already started, but you can disable clipboard
transfer easily enough at the client end. Also, at least for me,
-iconic has never worked properly (vncconfig never starts iconified.)

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[Pierre Ossman]

It's hard coded so I don't see a nice way around it. But I've changed
the vncserver script in a5b37c0 to use -nowin instead.

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[Tim]

Thank you for making the change.