VNC vs. X export
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Sun Jun 1 20:41:06 CDT 2003
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> If I wanted to run a program on one computer, and display it on another, I
> could either run VNC or I could just export the X display. What are the
> relative merits of each approach?
X can display remotely on a program-by-program basis. VNC requires that
you export the entire display, desktop and all. Both can be tunnelled via
SSH.
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