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Subject: Re: X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome?
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"Warren Head" <warrenhead@gmail.com> writes:

> 2007/5/1, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>:
>>
>> Why are you trying to start a window manager on the remote machine?
>> You only need (or can have) one per session, and in this case (as in
>> most cases), I would expect it to be on the machine that is running
>> the X server (which seems to be your Ubuntu machine).
>>
>> Just log into the FreeBSD machine and run your applications; they
>> will be displayed on your existing X session.
>> --
>> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
>>                 http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
>>
>
> Mmm, good point.
>
> So, you're saying that although I can run things on my server,
> I shouldn't have expected to get the RDP/VNC extra's (if you can call it
> that) such as the menu(items), background, windowmanager, etcetera.

Right.  "There can only be one guy in charge."

> I basically expected the remote gnome to appear as a window that I could
> throw fullscreen or have minimized.
> Is that possible in any way?

Yes, there are applications to do that.  VNC is probably the
best-known.  It's in ports.