From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 20 16:56:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C7816A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:56:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1843D49 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:56:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: by malasada.lava.net (Postfix, from userid 102) id E2F0A153885; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:56:00 -1000 (HST) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:56:00 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: "Loren M. Lang" Message-ID: <20050420165559.GA20704@tikitechnologies.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Loren M. Lang" , Joshua Lewis , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <20050420110127.GH4192@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050420110127.GH4192@alzatex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" cc: Joshua Lewis Subject: Re: gnome2 over an ssh2 connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:56:01 -0000 On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:01:27AM -0700, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 09:46:10PM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: > > I connect to my FreeBSD system from a PowerBook and was wondering (mostly > > for fun) if I can run Gnome2 or KDE or something within a Terminal > > connection on my PowerBook. > > Yes, but you need an X server for your power book. Apple has a copy of > XFree86 available on their website, I'd recomend installing it. Getting OT here, but if you bought a recent version (OS X 10.2 or later) it's on the extra DVD that came with the hardware and OS. I installed X for my daughter's iBook last summer so she could run OpenOffice. It is indeed perfectly feasible to run X apps over the network, that's what it was designed for. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect "I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..." -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair