Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:40:22 +0000 From: Xian <ian@codepad.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Control local X from ssh? Message-ID: <200501301340.22765.ian@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200501301205.j0UC5pUL011346@mail-core.space2u.com> References: <200501301205.j0UC5pUL011346@mail-core.space2u.com>
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On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:05, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > I'm not very knowledgeable in the areas of X, X servers and clients. > > I have a setup like this: > > 1. FreeBSD server > 2. FreeBSD Workstation with only monitor, not keyboard, no mouse > 3. Windows XP Complete workstation with an X-win32 > > > On workstation 2 I'm running X and an auto started image viewer that shows > a slideshow. Today when I want to show another set of images I'll have to > add/remove images from a designated folder and then restart the whole > machine. Everything done via SSH to the client. > > I would prefer being able to just shutdown/start up the image viewer > software in that particular X session. > > I installed VNC server on the client, but it only served me with yet > another X session, not the particular sceen shown on the monitor. > > I certainly could need some help here. You might be able to send the slide show program a signal to get it to restart. Investigate 'kill', it doesn't _just_ kill things. -- /Xian "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein
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