Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:33:28 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine? Message-ID: <20050607213328.GA48444@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20050607222003.7e087d74.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20050607000301.64d5ef9e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20050607100341.GA46404@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050607222003.7e087d74.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:03:41 +0200 > Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> wrote: > > > Stock X is sufficient. > > Well, stock X will probably work. I have used that in the past on a > per-program basis. You know, the 'DISPLAY=host:0.0 program ...' routine. > > I'm sorry that my little question lacked enough detail to avoid all this > confusion. On the other hand, it sparked an interssting debate. :) > The enironment is LAN. > The reason that I forgot to mention stock X, is that vnc (which I'm > partial to, since that's what I have been using) is so much easier to > use: > a) it gives me a complete X desktop which is separate from the X desktop > I use when I log in locally. This means I can tailor the remote desktop > to another wm, another display size and so on. You could probably do this by customizing ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. I agree it would not be the easiest thing to do, though > b) it allows me to run the display in a web browser (java required) This seems to be a good reason to use VNC. > > My users use ThinBSD based thin clients to connect to a > > FreeBSD/amd64 server. > > And on the server you run xdm or something like that? I run xdm, yes. Since I do not like the "official" way to launch it from /etc/ttys, I made a port which provides a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d : http://www.thinbsd.org/cvsweb/ThinBSD/ports/xdm-rc/ -- Francois Tigeot
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