Remote X?

Bill Cavalieri bcavalieri at gekl.net
Tue Sep 24 19:11:58 CDT 2002


Remote x displays work best on lans, for anything over wan, I would use
tightvnc www.tightvnc.org.

I use both on several servers, and have tightvnc setup in xinetd, and
several ports for different displays (1024x768, 800x600, 8 bit, and 16
bit).

-Bill

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 13:57, Jason Clinton wrote:
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> I know it can be done...
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> I would like to be able to log in to my linux box at home graphically.
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> I already have SSH working and GDM is installed. I saw XDMCP in the GDM control
> panel. What is that? It said some stuff about accepting remote connections. It's
> turned off right now for security.
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> What about security... is the connection encrypted.
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> What sort of performance can I expect from across down over DSL?
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> Anyone done this?
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