On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Robin Atwood wrote:
> Three letters, VNC, does exactly what you want. I use it precisely as you
> describe.
VNC is good for what it is designed for. You however need to run a
complete set of X on the remote machine and a complete set of X on the
local machine; not exactly u
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately
> when I try to start an X session fr
On 14 Jan, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:43:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
>> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
>> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:
to start programs from the command line
vice via a Gnome button), but otherwise everything would be the
same.
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:43:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
> my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
> variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately
> when I try to
On 14 Jan, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
> I really don't understand what you are trying to do. If you have
> X-Windows running on your laptop, as long as X is installed on the
> remote machine, it doesn't matter if that machine is in terminal
> mode or Graphics mode... it can still throw up valid X
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Subject: Starting an Xsession on remote computer
I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manag
I recently bought a laptop and am trying to use it to remotely manage
my desktop computer. I login via a telnet session and set the DISPLAY
variable (usually something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0). Unfortunately
when I try to start an X session from here (startx) it doesn't work.
What more do I need
