From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 12: 9:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E25C137B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7404 invoked by uid 100); 3 Dec 2001 20:09:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15371.56327.183357.220417@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:09:43 -0600 To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions in regards to VNC, remote management tool. In-Reply-To: <30564428@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson types: > Think of VNC as "screen" for X. You can't access an existing X sesion > via VNC, just like you can't access a preexisting TTY login via screen. The similarity extends further than that. The VNC Server is also the X server the clients connect to, so the state of the X session is kept even if you disconnect from the client. So just like screen, you can log out, and log back in and find all the things you were using still there. There are people who use VNC as a "desktop" or "views" manager, running multiple copies, and the X server talking to the display has just enough window manager running to toggle between them. There's also a libvga client for people who don't want to run two X servers just to maintain their session, but I've never managed to get it to work. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message