Remote XWindow session

[Rajinder Yadav]

All thanks for the feedback, will need to read up on a few things.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Wed, 4/22/09, John Sellens <jsellens-Iv5KO+h6AVB+Y12zHexnB0EOCMrvLtNR at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: John Sellens <jsellens at generalconcepts.com>
> Subject: Re:  [TLUG]: Remote XWindow session
> To: tlug at ss.org
> Received: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 11:32 PM
> | Is it possible to set up a remote
> xwindow session? What I want to do is
> | connect to a remote Linux box that has no video card, but
> I still want 
> | to be able to run a local KDE session controlling the
> remote Linux box 
> | in a rich GUI environment.
> 
> Check out Xvnc(1) - it's an X server that has no actual
> display or
> graphics card that is also a VNC server.  Handy if
> your X clients
> need more bandwidth than you have e.g. if you're not on the
> same
> ethernet as the server.  Can also be useful if the X
> clients are
> not well behaved and expect a different environment than
> you have
> on your local display.
> 
> As others have mentioned, you can run remote X clients on
> your local
> display, either by setting DISPLAY and using xauth, or by
> using an
> ssh connection and X forwarding.  And there's dxpc(1)
> if you're
> running X clients across a slower link.
> 
> This whole possible separation of X client and server has
> been in
> X right from the beginning, around 1984 or so.  Pity
> that Microsoft
> Windows ignored everything else in the world and built a
> ludicrously
> restrictive environment.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> John
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