Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:46:39 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to remote contact x server Message-ID: <64c6fbe60b1fad1ddb1d5f10967d46f4@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms> References: <20050313181048.GC46872@saturn.pcs.ms> <b0f79b540d5fa545ff4f583e33d7ae84@chrononomicon.com> <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms>
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On Mar 14, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello Bart > > Am Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:20:14PM -0500 Bart Silverstrim schrieb: >> >> On Mar 13, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Martin Schweizer wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I've two X server: a client and a server. How I can contact from the >>> client >>> the server (I read some articles but did not find a solution)? I can >>> successfully start X applications over SSH but I can't contact the >>> xdm. What >>> do I wrong? >> >> What do you mean? If you're starting the X app on the remote system >> using X-forwarding with ssh, you're running a remote application using >> the remote system's CPU and memory. If you're trying to do something >> like open a whole X session on the remote system like a remote >> terminal, something like a "remote desktop", you'd probably need to >> look into using something like VNC over SSH or something using XNest >> may work. > > Now I can start remote applications (like OpenOffice) remote without > problems. > My goals are to use a "remote desktop" (like you describe). Is there a > VNC > server for X? There is; there should be some documentation for it if you google for VNC x terminal. Someone else may have more specific search terms, but I remember experimenting with this a few months ago.
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