Re: Displaying Slideshow on Remote Computer

[Rik Scarborough]

The only two problems I would have are 1) it would tie up two machines 
for this function and 2) the screen on the remote computer is not as 
clear as the local one.

Thanks for the idea.

~Rik
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 07:53  AM, Matt Smith wrote:
I would recommend running VNC, but opposite to what you seem to be
thinking.  Run the VNC client on the BSD box, and the server on the
Windows Box.  The PPT slide show could be delivered and controlled by
PowerPoint on the Windows box, and the VNC client would display the
Windows Desktop on the Kiosk.
-Matt
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 18:43, Rik Scarborough wrote:
I'll explain what I want to do, then what I planned and ask my
question.  That way if any of you have a better way to accomplish 
this,
you can let me know.

I need to display a Power Point slide on a FreeBSD computer running
more or less like a Kiosk.  The FreeBSD machine will be running in a
foyer displaying the Slide show and playing mp3's.  It will not have a
keyboard attached and needs to be controlled (i.e. slides changed) 
from
a Windows box in the office.  Both machines will be on the network.

Our plan is to use Open Office to show the slide show.  I had planned
to put XWindows on the Windows machine (using Cygwin) and export the
display from the FreeBSD box, but then it dawned on me that I will not
get the same display that is running the slide show.  i.e. Open Office
will be running on localhost:0.0, but the user will be looking at
remotebox:0.0.  As a side benefit, this will be a chance to put a BSD
desktop in front of the users who overwhelming feel that they have to
have Windows to do their job.
Someone suggested VNC, but that does not appear to control the :0.0
display.  I'm not sure how that is different from rlogin to the BSD 
box
and exporting the display.

Is there a way to either control Open Office from the command line, or
grab Open Office, at least Impress, from localhost:0.0 long enough to
open a new file and start the slide show, and then push it back?
~Rik

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