Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-15 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Alson van der Meulen
When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you don't run your normal X server. Instead you run vncserver from a non-X environment. This starts the VNC server, but you don't see any GUI

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
Alson van der Meulen wrote: When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you don't run your normal X server. Instead you run vncserver from a non-X environment. This starts the VNC server,

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
Manegold wrote: Alson van der Meulen wrote: When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you don't run your normal X server. Instead you run vncserver from a non-X environment. This

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Manegold
On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: Manegold wrote: Alson van der Meulen wrote: When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you don't run your normal X server. Instead you run

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: Manegold wrote: Alson van der Meulen wrote: When it comes to controlling a Linux X display, I'm a little more hazy. Near as I can figure, if you want to control a Linux box using VNC, you don't run your

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-12 Thread kmself
on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:30:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 12-Dec-2000 Erik Steffl wrote: if you mean that you can use vnc to view windows desktop but not to view your 'normal' linux X desktop, that's sort of true, it's not possible with 'straight' vnc,

What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal X/KDE/Gnome - apps make use of it? What are the advantages

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:20:03AM +0100, Manegold wrote: Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Erik Steffl
viewer, it uses java, you can try it at www.workspot.com erik Manegold wrote: Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps

Re: What is VNC?

2000-12-11 Thread Kent West
Manegold wrote: Hi! I'm wondering what VNC is. According to the package listing it is a remote display system. Therefore something like X. But what does that mean? Can I use it instead of X? Does it need special apps that make use of it, or can normal X/KDE/Gnome - apps make use of it? What