On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:03:41 +0200 > Francois Tigeot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stock X is sufficient. > > Well, stock X will probably work. I have used that in the past on a > per-program basis. You know, the 'DISPLAY=host:0.0 program ...' routine. > > I'm sorry that my little question lacked enough detail to avoid all this > confusion. On the other hand, it sparked an interssting debate. :) > The enironment is LAN. > The reason that I forgot to mention stock X, is that vnc (which I'm > partial to, since that's what I have been using) is so much easier to > use: > a) it gives me a complete X desktop which is separate from the X desktop > I use when I log in locally. This means I can tailor the remote desktop > to another wm, another display size and so on.
You could probably do this by customizing ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession. I agree it would not be the easiest thing to do, though > b) it allows me to run the display in a web browser (java required) This seems to be a good reason to use VNC. > > My users use ThinBSD based thin clients to connect to a > > FreeBSD/amd64 server. > > And on the server you run xdm or something like that? I run xdm, yes. Since I do not like the "official" way to launch it from /etc/ttys, I made a port which provides a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d : http://www.thinbsd.org/cvsweb/ThinBSD/ports/xdm-rc/ -- Francois Tigeot _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
