On Friday 03 February 2006 00:23, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote > > machine with > > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right > > direction as > > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the > > machine. > > > > Beech
> > For strictly a X11 forwarded solution, do something like the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -CY [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ twm& # or xfwm4 or something else like that. > > For a VNC solution, I suggest using x11vnc. By using SSH forwarding > and compression you can easily attach to a preexisting desktop session. > -Garrett Thanks for the pointers. I googled for vnc and it doesn't look very hard to configure. Plus, KDE supports it. Think I'll go with that. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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