X11 remote desktops and keyboards

2011-04-17 Thread Daniel Staal
I'm having a problem where if I try to create a remote desktop using X11, my keyboard gets remapped quite oddly. (One key I've learned is that 'e' translates to 'backspace', for instance...) This does not happen if I just run a program remotely. It only happens if I try to run Xnest or

Re: remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-04 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 12:26:40AM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:51 pm, Marc Wiz wrote: I can watch my tv card over the network, it uses about 4MB/s on a 100Mb switched netowrk, but it works. If you don't have a lot of

remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread KroNiC~BSD
I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the tricks etc.. such as compression. I would think it would be unusable over a modem. I found Rdesktop and it does work nice to talk to my XP machine but the

Re: remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread Marc Wiz
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote: I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the tricks etc.. such as compression. I would think it would be unusable over a modem. I found

Re: remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:51 pm, Marc Wiz wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote: I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the tricks etc.. such as