On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:44 pm, M. Jentges wrote: > Ok it's been a long couple days, but AFAIK can't you accomplish the same > thing with VNC? choice of window managers is limited I think, but.... Perhaps. I have used VNC for accessing Windows machines remotely across a LAN. I'm not familiar with the specifics of how these programs all work, but I believe that with VNC, the information is transmitted as purely graphical, while with the local X server running on my Windows PC, all that is transferred is the drawing instructions, which are much less bandwidth intensive, and thus, perform better. Maybe I'm wrong about this. If someone knows better, correct me. Also, having never used VNC with Linux, maybe someone on the list can tell me - does the VNC Linux client take over the X desktop on the Linux workstation when someone is using VNC? That is, can you watch someone using the workstation remotely from the actual console (or vice versa)? This is what the Windows version of VNC does, and I don't really want that behavior for my particular situation. But, you are correct, that the net effect of what I have done is very VNC-like. Dan