Thanks Gilbert. I'll check that out now. Just out of curiosity, it's not clear what VNC does. Is it a remote desktop that gives you what's going on in the console (what I don't want)? Or does it give you a new X session (what I want).
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Gilbert Coville <[email protected]> wrote: > Take a look at NX. (www.nomachine.com). That gets you a new session, > different > from what's happening on the console. > > Gilbert > > On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: > >> Sometimes when I work on my WinXP box I want to use my Linux box >> without being in front of the computer. What I'd really like is to >> graphically remote login to Linux/KDE from WinXP, as in, open up a >> window containing a KDE login session from my WinXP box. I'm already >> running MingW, and can use remote X apps like xeyes via Putty. >> >> I tried using Putty (with X-Forwarding and running /usr/bin/startkde >> upon login) but KDE crashes, and the problem seems pretty complicated, >> so I'd like to try a different way. >> >> My wife is almost always logged into the Linux box and is using KDE. >> I don't want to share her session, but use my own session. >> >> What the easiest/best ways of doing that? >> >> Thanks! >> Pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
