I don't strictly recall, but I'm almost sure you can configure vnc to use any window manager and start up any programs you want automatically. VNC at school runs CDE. But using ssh and X forwarding works well. Such a client that works on windows, (but barely on mac) is mindterm. Another one is puTTY. The problem is getting X in windows. There's 3 solutions I know of. One is Xwin-32 from starnet, which is like $300. Then there's another one whose name I don't remember. I think that one might be free. The final choice, although not as pretty is X in cygwin. I've used it. It works fine. But its not too great. If you use these, you can pop up any particular app, or a window manager if you like. The only issue with popping up gui elements from the command line is figuring out their names. Something called "printers" in the kde menu might be called lpd-conf-gui on the command line, for instance. Anyway, VNC is pretty cool for going from linux to windows, but to connect to unix, its usually best to use X. If you have winXP, there are some linux projects working on remote desktop viewing in linux, but I don't know the status of that.
-Eric Hattemer On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 17:45, Jeff Mings wrote: > I use TridiaVNC a LOT to control Windoze PCs from my Linux boxen, and it's > faster than "plain" VNC. Also, there is now a new project called RealVNC, I > believe. I have used it to control other Linux boxen, but prefer to use SSH > and various CLI tools rather than the TWM based X environment that TridiaVNC > gives you. > > -Jeff