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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:48 +0530, Remington L wrote:

> 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?

Actually, VNC works just fine connecting to a Gnome desktop, even tunneled
over SSH. I regularly launch an SSH session on a Windows desktop using
PuTTY, connect to my home system through an open port on my router, and
then run TightVNC which I tunnel over the established SSH session to
connect to Vino (Gnome's built-in VNC server) on my Gnome desktop, which
allows me to control screen :0 (my actual desktop, as opposed to starting a
new desktop).