<quote who="Stuart Guthrie"> > Reason is that X is starting gnome in 1024x, I try to Ctrl-Alt-Minus but > it doesn't work, even though it > does when I do it on the server. > > Q: Is there a command line over-ride for Ctrl-Alt-Minus?
Not sure. > Q: Is VNC worthwhile or should I be using X for virtual desktops? Humble > Opinions? VNC is good, and more easily cross-platform than X. ie, you can use VNC across X, Windows, MacOS, etc. If you want to use software remotely from a Linux box to another (or any other *nix), it's easier to do it with X and ssh. Use this: ssh -X host-with-software-on-it software-you-want-to-run-remotely-but-display-locally & ssh does the X forwarding and manages the authentication for you. Noice. If you want a good cross-platform way of displaying your Linux desktop on a remote machine, check out this howto I posted to SLUG some time ago. It's *really* useful; plus it means you don't have to be logged in to an X session on the machine, and you can have lots and lots of people running it at once. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/August/msg00730.html [ I also posted a follow up with a fix for the session-doesn't-die problem. You can fidn that with the archives search. :) ] - Jeff -- 'A "lame" server is a server that is SUPPOSED to be authoritative, but, when asked, says: "Me? I know nothing, I'm from Madrid!" - Ralf Hildebrandt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
