On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 11:04 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > And that man page is as obtuse as any I've seen.
Rather than hammering that out by hand, use the remote desktop built right into Ubuntu? On the Ubuntu machine attached to the mill, clicky: System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop Then select: Allow other users to view your desktop Allow other users to control your desktop Set up the Security section to suit your paranoia. On the Ubuntu machine attached to your Comfy Chair, clicky: Applications -> Internet -> Remote Desktop Viewer It'll show you a list of what's available on your network, which should include the milling machine. Clicky to select, feed in a password if you set it up that way, blow that window up to full screen, and you're there... Works for me, anyhow. I do pretty nearly all the setup & fiddling from the Comfy Chair for both the Sherline & Thing-O-Matic, then drop down to the Basement Lab to actually start building things. Not quite so manly as mud-wrestling with X, but ... -- Ed http://softsolder.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
