From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 10:36:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 64D1616A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:36:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from pinnacle.akherb.com (94-37-237-24.gci.net [24.237.37.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEB143D46 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:36:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from akbeech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix, from userid 1007) id 3EF1A5D26; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:36:28 -0900 (AKST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pinnacle.akherb.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from [192.168.2.131] (209-124-141-064.ip.arctic.net [209.124.141.64]) by pinnacle.akherb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E5C5C08; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:36:27 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Alaska Paradise Travel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:36:14 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> <9BA4D4B1-2B06-4FD4-89B4-13181457C490@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <9BA4D4B1-2B06-4FD4-89B4-13181457C490@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602030136.25369.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: remote x-window X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:36:29 -0000 --nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 03 February 2006 00:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > > machine with > > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right > > direction as > > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the > > machine. > > > > Beech > > For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: > > user@local_host $ ssh -CY user@remote_host > user@remote_host $ twm& # or xfwm4 or something else like that. > > For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding > and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. > -Garrett Thanks for the pointers. I googled for vnc and it doesn't look very hard t= o=20 configure. Plus, KDE supports it. Think I'll go with that. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - akbeech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD4zIp1HPO4IQJSE0RAkEqAJ91s8jFDiXzCnLrm5RpCZ6B1TxGGwCeOUg/ He4lVAjUW5m7Y8qfioGcw4U= =IP3z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli--