From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 17:02:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24D316A420 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:02:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-list@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from mta.algx.net (mta8.algx.net [67.92.168.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B00F43D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:02:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-list@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from andersencabinet.com (ip67-95-33-74.z33-95-67.customer.algx.net [67.95.33.74]) by chimmx03.algx.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IOO00MIM4ARCS@chimmx03.algx.net> for gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: by andersencabinet.com (Postfix, from userid 1115) id 4615F37B742; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (hilton.andcab.local [192.168.9.17]) by andersencabinet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2504A37B6CD; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:54:21 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton In-reply-to: <20051019182940.467aaf51@phobos.mars.bsd> To: Alejandro Pulver Message-id: <4357CBBD.1000002@hiltonbsd.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.andcab.local X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 References: <20051019182940.467aaf51@phobos.mars.bsd> Cc: Remington L , gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Desktop Connection Woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:02:54 -0000 Alejandro Pulver wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:48 +0530 > Remington L wrote: > > >>All: >>I am looking for a way to VNC or to connect to my FreeBSD laptop, >>running Xorg and GNOME. I can ssh into, but I do not have access to >>GNOME. >> >>My question is, I know I cannot use VNC because I use Xorg. Does >>anyone have any suggestions? > > > Hello, > > As others said, you can use VNC with Xorg. See the ports. > > However, if you want to share with VNC a display that is already > active, for example the Gnome desktop you are working on, you can try > 'net/x11vnc' (other VNC servers open a new display). > > IIRC Gnome (and/or KDE) has an utility to share the desktop, based on > VNC. > > Best Regards, > Ale > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Vino is the Gnome projects VNC tool for connection to your active desktop (display 0). I have not used it yet myself, just passing along a link. http://www.freshports.org/net/vino/ -Stephen Hilton