Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:53:39 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome? Message-ID: <863b2ff9po.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com> (Warren Head's message of "Tue, 1 May 2007 17:09:54 %2B0200") References: <4635C2EB.5000205@gmail.com> <448xc8wqbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com>
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"Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com> writes: > 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? Without installing any additional software: SSH to the remote host, start Xnest and run gnome-session on the Xnest display. There are other ways to do this, the closest equivalent to RDP in the Unix world is NX by NoMachine (www.nomachine.com). Don't even think about VNC - it is extremely insecure. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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