On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, William Hooper wrote: > Mike Miller said: > > I run Pine and Xvnc on my Solaris box and would love to be able to use > > vncviewer on a Palm OS device to connect to the Solaris box and do my > > e-mail. The Palm device (Treo 300 from Handspring) gives me always-on, > > unlimited internet service through Sprint. The display size on the Treo > > is 160 x 160 pixels (like most palm OS devices). I would like to have a > > single 160 x 160 X-window in which to run Pine from the Treo. It would be > > nice to have no border on the window. What do you think? Has anyone else > > dealt with this before? > > In this specific example (Pine being text-based) wouldn't it be faster > to just run Pine over an SSH connection? You can use "screen" to get a > persistent session and sending the text (SSH) should be faster than > sending a picture of the text (VNC).
That's a good idea too. I'm not sure if the ssh for palm will give me colors and clickable interface, both of which are helpful. I haven't used screen before, but have heard it is good. Does it return me exactly to where I was in my session if I lose my connection? I don't think speed will be a problem because I'm supposed to have true 50-70 kbps which should be fine with a little thumbs-only QWERTY keypad. See my next message for more info on my current solution. > Back to the original question, you can set the VNC server's resolution > with the "-geometry" switch. Sizing the window and whether it has a > border are both functions of the window manager. I haven't tried it, > but you might want to check out http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/ . Thanks. I did know most of that but 'ratpoison' sounds interesting. I'll probably try to experiment later with other window managers and ways to get rid of all borders, but the thing I just developed today seems to work. I'm actually using old OpenWindows under Solaris right now. If any of you get interested in this and find a better way (e.g., lower bandwidth) to make this work, I'd be very interested. I wrote up a bunch of info about my scheme and you can read it all in my next message. Best, Mike -- Michael B. Miller, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Epidemiology and Institute of Human Genetics University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/ _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
