From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 7 21:33:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403B816A41C for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:33:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@wolfpond.org) Received: from ares.wolfpond.org (ns1.wolfpond.org [62.212.96.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4451843D58 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (aoi.wolfpond.org [IPv6:2001:7a8:24db:1:20c:76ff:feb4:27e1]) by ares.wolfpond.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j57LXOvA030826; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:33:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j57LXT9f057321; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:33:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: (from ftigeot@localhost) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j57LXSaP057320; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:33:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:33:28 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot To: Torfinn Ingolfsen Message-ID: <20050607213328.GA48444@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <20050607000301.64d5ef9e.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20050607100341.GA46404@aoi.wolfpond.org> <20050607222003.7e087d74.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050607222003.7e087d74.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:33:31 -0000 On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:03:41 +0200 > Francois Tigeot 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