RE: mulinux question: monitorless diskless networked PC

From: Neil Zanella (nzanella@cs.mun.ca)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 19:29:15 CEST


On Tue, 22 May 2001, Brett Carroll wrote:

> >At this point I want to run a gui based program on the PC but the PC
> >has no monitor so I need to view the output on the laptop. Hence I
> >do an export DISPLAY=laptop:0.0 and run the X application, hence I
> >need X on the PC (don't I?).
>
> You can run VNC from the laptop and connect to the X server on your PC.
> Which should do what you are trying accomplish.
> -Brett Carroll

Wouldn't this be slower than a dirct X connection since both computers
are running X? How about an xdmcp session? Is that possible?

Last time I tried vnc3.3.3v2 there were bugs in the way the keyboard was
handled? Does anyone have the same keyboard problem?

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