Re: [TCLUG:12948] Remote X Server (VNC)

[Scott Lystig Fritchie <fritchie@mr.net>]

>>>>> "sp" == Steve Paltzer <spaltzer@yahoo.com> writes:

sp> VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing Free software under GPL!

It's worth putting in a plug for VNC.  It's darn spiffy.

I just recently rediscovered VNC, but I'm using it a lot when doing
software testing.  Some of what I'm doing requires interactivity that
a big net burp, a firewall reboot, etc. could interrupt.  I run the
VNC server in the test lab, then use the VNC viewer via an SSH tunnel
to control it from here at home.  If I want to relocate myself from my
desktop to my laptop to continue work from the comfort of a sofa, I
move to the living room, then fire up another viewer.  (Oh, there's
the option of sharing the same server with multiple clients.  Useful
for demos!)

Its ability to attach and reattach is a lot like what "screen"
provides.  Except it does it for X.  And is a heckuvalot more
portable.

sp> VNC is awesome! Thanks to the 8-bit mode, I am able to control my
sp> parents Win98 machine over my 56K connection !

And it's quite usable at low bitrates.

-Scott