On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 07:15, n30 wrote: > > I want to get remote gnome desktop of my home box at my office. (something > similar to windows remote desktop (win-win) or say rdesktop (linux-win)) > I know i could just ssh and I have also looked at VNC. But anything more > native/inbuild?? Hope my problem is clear. There are three different approaches: 1. You just want to run an isolated GUI application on your home box, but it should be displayed on your office box. That's easy, just make sure you have SSH installed on both systems, and that SSH is configured to forward X sessions. Then you just ssh into your home box and launch any X application you like from the command-line. It will get tunneled through ssh and displayed on your office box. Pay attention, if you already run your application on your home box, and the application does not support multiple instances (say: Evolution) then this method will not work; you'll have to kill the local instance first. 2. You want to run a full-blown desktop environment on your home box, which is different than the desktop displayed locally, and display it on the office box. That's easy, just read the vncserver documentation, it's designed to do exactly that. The disadvantage is that you'll have two separate environments running simultaneously on your home machine. Same problem regarding apps that don't support multiple instances applies here. 3. You want to display on your office box the same desktop that's displayed on your home box (just like the Windows VNC works). There are some projects to incorporate a VNC server into the X server, you may try to find them and use one of them, but they are not very popular. Poke around the existing VNC projects, ask their developers, you'll end up finding something, eventually. In addition to all that, you may investigate the desktop-sharing functions native to KDE, maybe that will work for you. Also, take a look at XDMCP, maybe that's a better match for your requirements. -- Florin Andrei "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
