[GLLUG] Red Hat, VNC, and remote displays (was: no subject)

[Edward Glowacki]

Hey Frank! =)

On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 13:31, Frank Louis Tuma wrote:
> I am running VNC on a Windows XP machine and log in with KDE. I took the 

One thing you might consider as an alternative to VNC, depending on your
needs, is setting up XFree86 (http://cygwin.com/xfree/) on your XP
machine.  Then you can log in via SSH and tunnel all your X applications
that way.  The nice thing about that is you can have all your X
applications pop up in native XP windows, so your Linux apps integrate
better with your Windows desktop instead of having one big VNC window
with it's own full-blown desktop inside.  I haven't used this setup
extensively, but my early testing shows it to work fairly well.  I'm not
sure how the speed compares to running VNC though, since I haven't tried
the VNC solution.

> so I can just boot 
> up the linux box and connect up w/ my laptop. 

If you just want to run an occasional X application, XFree86 might be a
better choice.

> So it looks like it's trying to display on display 1, but I'm not logged in 
> at the console I'm using display/port 5962. 
> 
> Is there any way to redirect the gui to display on my remote session?

It might be something weird with the environment.  Not sure here

> Is there a better way to do this?
> Should I even be using Redhat? 

RedHat isn't a problem really, pretty standard distribution to use so
it's probably a good choice to start with (more people to help you!).

> Newbie here so be nice please. :) 

And now, time to extract payment for services rendered.  Mwwhahahahah!  

We want...... a shrubbery!!!

One that look nice.

And not *too* expensive.


;)


-ED

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