On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:25:31AM -0700, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 07:58, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I will look at vnc some more, but as I understand it, vnc copies > > desktops, not the single window outputs of single applications > > ("clients" in X parlance). I specifically do NOT want to share > > whole desktops. > > vnc does start its OWN x server. on that server, you can choose to > run no window manager and only one client that takes up the entire > desktop (and the server can run at any geometry, being virtual...say, > exactly the size of one perfectly sized xterm, or just 100x100 pixels > if you wanted to cram it onto a tablet in the corner), and then when > someone else connects to it, all they see is an xterm, and even if > they manage to close the xterm, they can't do anything else to the > remote session--there's no clicking on the root window to bring up a > context menu, because a window manager, not X win itself, provides > that.
... > if i missed, please include in your proposed actual implementation a > list of gotchas like "stream must be encrypted" (tunnel vnc over ssh), > or "no my application really does understand two cursors and keyboard > input streams and uses them in manner X" (and explicitly list the xwin > api's or extensions that it uses to do so). The application is later "versions" of my wife's medical clinic. Collaborative work, between doctor and patient, or medical assistant and patient, filling out forms or looking at documents. Or, office manager and accountant, working on Quickbooks on Win7 in Virtualbox (open source accounting would be better, but a separate discussion). In the beginning, we will just use two back-to-back screens off a video splitter, with two mice and two keyboards on the same desk. But it would be nice to move the workspace around, between rooms and eventually offsite. This will be implemented incrementally, but I don't want to start off in a direction that is incompatable with later improvements, hence my learning about the technology and beginning experiments now. What you say about vnc is plausible and informative. I was confused by the emphasis on moving whole desktops in other online discussions. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
