Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:21 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton <bsd-list@hiltonbsd.com> To: Alejandro Pulver <alejandro@varnet.biz> Cc: Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com>, gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Connection Woes Message-ID: <4357CBBD.1000002@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <20051019182940.467aaf51@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <fe18b2280510120713v6064e585haadfebd4e99f938d@mail.gmail.com> <20051019182940.467aaf51@phobos.mars.bsd>
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Alejandro Pulver wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:48 +0530 > Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>All: >>I am looking for a way to VNC or to connect to my FreeBSD laptop, >>running Xorg and GNOME. I can ssh into, but I do not have access to >>GNOME. >> >>My question is, I know I cannot use VNC because I use Xorg. Does >>anyone have any suggestions? > > > Hello, > > As others said, you can use VNC with Xorg. See the ports. > > However, if you want to share with VNC a display that is already > active, for example the Gnome desktop you are working on, you can try > 'net/x11vnc' (other VNC servers open a new display). > > IIRC Gnome (and/or KDE) has an utility to share the desktop, based on > VNC. > > Best Regards, > Ale > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Vino is the Gnome projects VNC tool for connection to your active desktop (display 0). I have not used it yet myself, just passing along a link. http://www.freshports.org/net/vino/ -Stephen Hilton
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