[lug] Newbie X-window questions

[Ken Weinert]

* 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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