Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 01:36:14 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: remote x-window Message-ID: <200602030136.25369.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <9BA4D4B1-2B06-4FD4-89B4-13181457C490@u.washington.edu> References: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> <9BA4D4B1-2B06-4FD4-89B4-13181457C490@u.washington.edu>
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--nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 03 February 2006 00:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > > machine with > > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right > > direction as > > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the > > machine. > > > > Beech > > For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: > > user@local_host $ ssh -CY user@remote_host > user@remote_host $ twm& # or xfwm4 or something else like that. > > For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding > and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. > -Garrett Thanks for the pointers. I googled for vnc and it doesn't look very hard t= o=20 configure. Plus, KDE supports it. Think I'll go with that. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - akbeech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD4zIp1HPO4IQJSE0RAkEqAJ91s8jFDiXzCnLrm5RpCZ6B1TxGGwCeOUg/ He4lVAjUW5m7Y8qfioGcw4U= =IP3z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3653392.fyJCUoPsli--
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