Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:05:49 +0200 From: Marton Kenyeres <mkenyeres@konvergencia.hu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine? Message-ID: <42A7F85D.1020906@konvergencia.hu> In-Reply-To: <20050607213328.GA48444@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <20050607000301.64d5ef9e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20050607100341.GA46404@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050607222003.7e087d74.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20050607213328.GA48444@aoi.wolfpond.org>
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Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > >>On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:03:41 +0200 >>Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> wrote: >> >> >>>Stock X is sufficient. >> >>Well, stock X will probably work. I have used that in the past on a >>per-program basis. You know, the 'DISPLAY=host:0.0 program ...' routine. >> >>I'm sorry that my little question lacked enough detail to avoid all this >>confusion. On the other hand, it sparked an interssting debate. :) >>The enironment is LAN. >>The reason that I forgot to mention stock X, is that vnc (which I'm >>partial to, since that's what I have been using) is so much easier to >>use: >>a) it gives me a complete X desktop which is separate from the X desktop >>I use when I log in locally. This means I can tailor the remote desktop >>to another wm, another display size and so on. > > > You could probably do this by customizing ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. > I agree it would not be the easiest thing to do, though > > >>b) it allows me to run the display in a web browser (java required) > > > This seems to be a good reason to use VNC. Yeah, but take a look at: http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/ It's a pure java based GPL'd XServer. Can be run as an applet too. I'm in no way affiliated with them, but I must admit it's quite cool. > > >>>My users use ThinBSD based thin clients to connect to a >>>FreeBSD/amd64 server. >> >>And on the server you run xdm or something like that? > > > I run xdm, yes. > Since I do not like the "official" way to launch it from /etc/ttys, I made > a port which provides a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d : > > http://www.thinbsd.org/cvsweb/ThinBSD/ports/xdm-rc/ > WierdX claims to support XDMCP, altough I never tried it myself. Cheers, m.
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