On Friday 15 February 2002 06:44 am, you wrote: > VNC on GNU/Linux will by default spawn a new X session for the login > that ran vncserver (kinda like Citrix MetaFrame). A hack exists to make > it so that session :0 gets shared: > http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ There is a port of this that works natively with KDE, it works pretty slick. It will prompt you if you want to let the remote connection take control. If working with a slow link to view try TightVNC. TightVNC has > different settings for image quality and compression that I have found > to help speed up drawing of the screen on a dial-up connection. > > Kelly Black > KB0GBJ > > On Friday 15 February 2002 00:47, Daniel Churchill wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com -- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain