VNC on GNU/Linux will by default spawn a new X session for the login that ran vncserver (kinda like Citrix MetaFrame). A hack exists to make it so that session :0 gets shared: http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ If working with a slow link to view try TightVNC. TightVNC has different settings for image quality and compression that I have found to help speed up drawing of the screen on a dial-up connection. Kelly Black KB0GBJ On Friday 15 February 2002 00:47, Daniel Churchill wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:44 pm, M. Jentges wrote: > > Ok it's been a long couple days, but AFAIK can't you accomplish the same > > thing with VNC? choice of window managers is limited I think, but.... > > Perhaps. I have used VNC for accessing Windows machines remotely across a > LAN. I'm not familiar with the specifics of how these programs all work, > but I believe that with VNC, the information is transmitted as purely > graphical, while with the local X server running on my Windows PC, all > that is transferred is the drawing instructions, which are much less > bandwidth intensive, and thus, perform better. Maybe I'm wrong about > this. If someone knows better, correct me. > > Also, having never used VNC with Linux, maybe someone on the list can tell > me - does the VNC Linux client take over the X desktop on the Linux > workstation when someone is using VNC? That is, can you watch someone > using the workstation remotely from the actual console (or vice versa)? > This is what the Windows version of VNC does, and I don't really want that > behavior for my particular situation. > > But, you are correct, that the net effect of what I have done is very > VNC-like. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list