On 12.01.2010 10:05:41, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Benjamin Schieder wrote:
>> On 06.01.2010 15:36:45, Helge Hafting wrote:
>>> lars poulsen wrote:
>>>> Hi list.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know of a VNC viewer that works with SHR?
>>>> I have a linux machine without monitor to control my music and i would
>>>> love to use my freerunner to control this machine.
>>> You don't need VNC for that!  VNC would only waste resources, and  
>>> require a video card on that monitorless machine.
>>
>> Actually, that's not true.
>> The VNC server does NOT need a video card. Neither does it need a
>> physical mouse or keyboard.
>
> Interesting - I didn't know that.
> Still, I have tried VNC between PCs, and found it both slow and
> imprecise compared to tunnelling X over ssh.
>
> VNC is nice when you don't have X on both ends, for example
> when windows gets involved. But when you have linux all the way,
> just using X seems the best choice.

Hi.

I tried that, too, of course. I'm developing on a machine across the
country to which I ssh into. Using ssh -X tends to send sigill's to the
application, no idea why. That's why I started using VNC. The ability to
select arbitrary resolutions is of course nice when developing for the
FR :-)


Kind regards,
     Benjamin
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