on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:30:12PM +0100, Manegold@uni-trier.de (Manegold@uni-trier.de) wrote: > > On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: > > if you mean that you can use vnc to view windows desktop but not to > > view your 'normal' linux X desktop, that's sort of true, it's not > > possible with 'straight' vnc, but I've just seen ITP on debian-devel > > for > > a program that does that (not sure how well it works). > > Yes that's what I meant. I would like to run my normal local display > system (X), but also have the option to kind of teleport my display to > some other computer that I happen to be at. When I'm done I want to be > able to return to my computer and find everything the way I left it when > I left the other computer. > vnc does that. As a display I still seem to > need X locally though, since the console vncviewer does not work with my > graphics card. I don't know if I would save much overhead as long as I'm > working with vnc locally compared with normal X. But starting X plus > windowmanager, vncserver (running another windowmanager and the apps on > that display), and also xvncviewer, is certainly quite a footprint. It > would do what I described above. Then don't. Run X without a windowmanager, run xvncviewer, and access your vnc session through that. You can do this by running X directly, or by putting xvncviewer into your .xinitrc. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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