From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 6 8:15:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5A2D37B406 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1281 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 2001 15:15:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15255.37667.749952.358414@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:15:47 -0500 To: Sam Suh Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with KVM switch In-Reply-To: <82850842@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Suh types: > Chris wrote: > > You might try vnc as a free replacement. Works great for me, and is in > > the ports collection. > Hi, Chris. Forgive me if I got it wrong, but isn't vnc a X client > designed run on Windows or other OS ( I am not sure if it supports other > types ). I understand your point but I don't like to run anything on > Windows since you know and I know M$ SUCKS! Nope. VNC is a cross-platform display system. You can run VNC servers on most major desktop platforms. You can run vnc clients on all of those, any platform with a java based web browser, and oddball things like the Nokia 9000 cell phone or a Palm. I've used VNC to access WIndows desktops from Unix, to access Unix desktops from a Palm on a wireless modem, to access Unix desktops from other Unix systems when I wanted the other desktop isolated from mine. I've found it invaluable when tweaking my window manager - shutting down and restarting a vnc sessions that's all on the local host so I can try the just built software is a lot saner than stopping and restrating my X session. It's also easier to debug when the window manager is in one window on my desktop, and the development environment is in another. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message