On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:47:22AM -0600, Daniel Churchill wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:44 pm, M. Jentges wrote: > > Ok it's been a long couple days, but AFAIK can't you accomplish the > > same thing with VNC? choice of window managers is limited I think, > > but.... VNC has nothing to do with window managers. ;-) VNC is to X what Citrix MetaFrame is to Windows. The X11R6 protocol requires a complicated application layer and a server to display to. X11 on the Windows desktop has traditionally been owned by commercial implementations X servers. The people at AT&T Bell Laboratories felt that X was a bit fat for pushing down narrow network connections -- they were right -- and that there had to be a better way to display a remote desktop. And there's the key difference: remote v.s. local. With VNC, the X server is actually run on the remote host. VNC pushes screen captures (or small portions of those parts that change) to the client. The client pushes mouse coordinates, mouse events, and keyboard events back to the VNC server. It's the same concept that MetaFrame uses (on the surface, anyway). The nice thing about VNC is that it runs as a server on both Windows and UNIX'es. With Cygwin's binary package of the XFree86 server for Windows, you can use the power of your local workstation to run the display of the remote X11 application. This isn't overkill, just a different way of accessing the same apps. Personally, I would use Cygwin XFree86 over VNC any day. The performance is SO much better on a LAN. Over a WAN, I'd use VNC. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020215/e6d1589a/attachment.pgp