From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 16:53:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1E716A400 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7DC13C4B0 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D080E20AC; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:53:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id B892220AB; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:53:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B0E848E7; Wed, 2 May 2007 18:53:39 +0200 (CEST) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "Warren Head" References: <4635C2EB.5000205@gmail.com> <448xc8wqbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:53:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <51e113440705010809t37200868haf3302a348bf3b8a@mail.gmail.com> (Warren Head's message of "Tue, 1 May 2007 17:09:54 +0200") Message-ID: <863b2ff9po.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X/gnome through ssh, clashes with local gnome? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 16:53:43 -0000 "Warren Head" writes: > 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. > > 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? Without installing any additional software: SSH to the remote host, start Xnest and run gnome-session on the Xnest display. There are other ways to do this, the closest equivalent to RDP in the Unix world is NX by NoMachine (www.nomachine.com). Don't even think about VNC - it is extremely insecure. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no