On Wednesday 03 April 2002 04:12 pm, Cham Mama wrote: > Peter > > Thanks for the detailed description. I was interested > about the Question 1 that you have mentioned below > (How does VNC remember what I was running when I > switch viewers ?). I keep my office viewer open and > connect to the VNC server from home and still manage > to get the same applications that were running from > the office viewer. Who maintains this ?
Okay. Let's say you are running X or windows or whatever. Forget VNC all together. Now let's say you turn your monitor off. Then you turn it back on. Where is the code that starts the programs back up? Of course there isn't any. THEY WERE RUNNING THE WHOLE TIME. Your programs have no more idea whether or not a VNC viewer is attached to the Xvnc that they are running under than they do if your eyes are open or not. Your question is based on the flawed assumption that your viewer at work has something to do with the programs running on your VNC server. It doesn't. Let's say that your kitchen has two windows. You look through one window and see a coffee pot. You walk over to the other window and see the same kind of coffee pot. Who makes sure that you see the same kind of coffee pot through the other window? The answer to my question and your question is the same. See? Let's say that you have an xterm and netscape open when you leave work. You go home and close netscape and open a text editor and start writing your Christmas letter to Santa Clause. Just then someone walks past your desk at work. They see your letter being "magically" written right before their eyes. Netscape is gone, but the term is still there. Make sense? If you still don't get it then I want to answer me a question before I try to answer yours any more. Why /wouldn't/ you see the same applications (in the same state, such as having half a letter to Santa Clause written in an editor) just because you changed viewers? -Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
