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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>
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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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