On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 22:10, mick wrote: > I really want my Mandrake box to run a full Xsession on my RedHat desktop. > Although a few other questions have cropped up, will my mouse and keyboard be > able to effect changes in the "imported" Xsession; ie willmouse and keyboard > work seemlessly on both desktops?
Yes, but you'll only send events to the exported X session when that window has focus. vnc is what you want if you want to be able to see the *same* session from multiple places and be able to stop and start it and so forth. It's also good if you want to use windows clients, because there is one, and it was purpose built to do precisely this (modulo vnc being a hack and not my preferred way of working and all that) > > I'm going to be doing to some reading on xnest and vncserver over the weekend > so I'll probably fire more questions into the ring after a little research. > > James Gregory also gave me some food for thought and I have knocked the > session numbers back up to the default 16 in the gdm.conf file. If your > reading this James, have you tried WinAXe? Nope. The only commercial one I've tried is xwin32 - which I thought was really cool at the time because it had this mode where my X apps would appear as "Windows windows". I've since realised that the Windows GUI just isn't that good these days, so now it irritates me. but it is an excellent piece of software. If you just want a server though, the cygwin one is as good as any others out there. It "just works" and has good performance (surprisingly so actually). Having the cygwin tools around is always handy as well. There was another one I've seen running at offices around the place. eXceed or something. I'm not sure, I was always running linux. The people using it all swore by it and it seemed quite nice. It was able to do zany things like put the gnome panel straight onto the windows desktop. Almost made it feel like a real computer. > > Both James and Angus seem to be moving toward xnest for what I want to do so > I'llbe focusing on that this weekend. yep. I think that's what you want. > > Wish me luck and Thanks all, feel free to keep dropping thoughts .. Best of luck. Mail if you need more help. James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
