Re: remote x session

2007-12-31 Thread Frank Staals
Jonathan Horne wrote: well, the part i didnt mention before, was the method behind the madness. its actually a jail-host, with 3 jails running. my intention, is to keep the latest of kde, gnome, and xfce built on each, and just remotely attach to (or forward) its x session from my main

Re: remote x session

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 27 December 2007 02:35:05 am Steve Franks wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and it's much better with latency than sending x iteslf over ssh, I'm

Re: remote x session

2007-12-30 Thread Darren Spruell
On Dec 30, 2007 7:16 PM, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2007 02:35:05 am Steve Franks wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and

Re: remote x session

2007-12-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 30 December 2007 09:00:27 pm Darren Spruell wrote: There is the XDMCP option, which allows you to remotely connect to an X display manager for full, remote display sessions. This isn't regarded to be a secure solution by most people. If your remote system is a server, do you have a

Re: remote x session

2007-12-27 Thread Steve Franks
Perhaps I misunderstand, but I use x11vnc on the 'server' and vncviewer or tightvnc on the 'client'. There are several pages to google on tunneling it thru ssh, and it's much better with latency than sending x iteslf over ssh, I'm told. If you start x11vnc with no options, it will export the

Re: remote x session

2007-12-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jonathan Horne skrev: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ?

remote x session

2007-12-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ? cheers, -- Jonathan

Re: remote x session

2007-12-24 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little

Re: remote x session

2007-12-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this,

Re: remote x session

2007-12-24 Thread Frank Staals
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 01:11:12 pm Jeremy Gransden wrote: On 12/24/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is

Re: remote X session fonts question

2005-09-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Maarten Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too

remote X session fonts question

2005-09-19 Thread Maarten Sanders
Hi, My wifes laptop is too aged to work at an acceptable speed. I have converted it to a remote X terminal (over ssh) and that works like a charm. Only application that behaves funny is Openoffice.org.1.1.5. For some reason the fonts in the menus get too much space around them. Has anyone a clue