Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 11:36:28 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome? Message-ID: <44bqh45zer.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com> (Warren Head's message of "Tue\, 1 May 2007 17\:09\:54 %2B0200") References: <4635C2EB.5000205@gmail.com> <448xc8wqbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com>
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"Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com> writes: > 2007/5/1, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>: >> >> Why are you trying to start a window manager on the remote machine? >> You only need (or can have) one per session, and in this case (as in >> most cases), I would expect it to be on the machine that is running >> the X server (which seems to be your Ubuntu machine). >> >> Just log into the FreeBSD machine and run your applications; they >> will be displayed on your existing X session. >> -- >> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area >> http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ >> > > Mmm, good point. > > So, you're saying that although I can run things on my server, > I shouldn't have expected to get the RDP/VNC extra's (if you can call it > that) such as the menu(items), background, windowmanager, etcetera. Right. "There can only be one guy in charge." > I basically expected the remote gnome to appear as a window that I could > throw fullscreen or have minimized. > Is that possible in any way? Yes, there are applications to do that. VNC is probably the best-known. It's in ports.
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