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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:42:12 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?
Message-ID:  <45583DF4.2010803@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20061112213759.S40519@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
References:  <20061112161718.Q39542@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>	<4557EF0F.5070108@computer.org> <20061112213759.S40519@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>

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Luke Dean wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
>> On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote:
>>>
>>> I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen"
>>> utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application,
>>> detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would allow me to do
>>> that with GUI applications. 
>>
>> Could this be of use?
>>  http://www.tightvnc.com/
> 
> Yes!  That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.  I used VNC with
> Windows years ago and it never occurred to me that it might be available
> on other platforms.  Thanks for putting me on the right track.
> 
> Luke

There is also a VNC server solution that ties into running X displays
(called x11vnc under Gentoo Linux; not sure if it exists in the ports
tree though), and an X11 solution that has been customized for high
transfer rates referred to as either nx or nomachinex. I found standard
VNC to be annoying since it requires a running X server instance, which
is a waste depending on what I have running, and both solutions I
mentioned earlier run well for many people (tried x11vnc but not
nomachinex).
- -Garrett
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