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Date:      Tue, 1 May 2007 17:09:54 +0200
From:      "Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome?
Message-ID:  <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <448xc8wqbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <4635C2EB.5000205@gmail.com> <448xc8wqbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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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.

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?

Cheers, Warren



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