"Warren Head" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2007/5/1, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Why are you trying to start a window manager on the remote machine? >> You only need (or can have) one per session, and in this case (as in >> most cases), I would expect it to be on the machine that is running >> the X server (which seems to be your Ubuntu machine). >> >> Just log into the FreeBSD machine and run your applications; they >> will be displayed on your existing X session. >> -- >> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area >> http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ >> > > Mmm, good point. > > So, you're saying that although I can run things on my server, > I shouldn't have expected to get the RDP/VNC extra's (if you can call it > that) such as the menu(items), background, windowmanager, etcetera.
Right. "There can only be one guy in charge." > I basically expected the remote gnome to appear as a window that I could > throw fullscreen or have minimized. > Is that possible in any way? Yes, there are applications to do that. VNC is probably the best-known. It's in ports. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
