Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all, Is it possible to get the vncserver program to export the :0 display of a system running X? My mother-in-law is having a few minor problems with her email client (Sylpheed under Gnome) and I was hoping to help her out. Cheers, Erik
No need to go to all that bother, just use ssh, you can tunnel X through ssh. It slows things down a bit, but if you just want to run the mail client, then that shouldn't be an issue. To do this just run this command ssh -CX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then you can launch an application, and it will run on your screen. Just so you know, the -CX means, compress, and allow X forwarding. Be sure that the X is a capital, lower case x, prevents X forwarding. This is how I use gui apps remotely, never actually tried a vnc (never had the need) so can't really give a comparison, but ssh does the job quite nicely for me. Tuxta Oh by the way -- Sylpheed, YUCK !! why not just use Thunderbird? much nicer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
