[lug] Newbie X-window questions

[Glenn Murray]

This seems like a good idea: I didn't know VNC was an X server.  So
you can run Gnome, KDE, whatever on it, right?

I think the big    advantage is recreating your work desktop at home.
I think the big disadvantage is recreating your work desktop at home.

How well does or would this work over a 56K line (which tends to
connect at 31.2K)?

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ken Weinert wrote:

> * Glenn Murray (gmurray at Mines.EDU) [010509 19:36]:
> > 
> > Thanks much for the reply---I now know more about the security
> > issues than I thought I needed.  Also, I hadn't thought about
> > VNC, there's even a Debian package for it.  What happens when
> > you run connect to a machine with a VNC server which is not
> > at the moment, running X?
> 
> 	On unix the VNC server *is* an X server. In fact, it's the X
> server that I use full time, even for a local connection (ie, sitting at
> my keyboard.)
> 
> 	I did it this way so that when I VNC in to my work machine from
> home I have the same desktop with all apps open, etc that were there
> when I left work. Makes the telecommuting more transparent.
> 
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