Re: [Sheflug] X server for windows

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

There are clients and servers for Linux and Windows (and just about any
other OS known to man :-)

You can run the server on Windows, and see your windows desktop in X, or
you can run a virtual X server on Linux, and see it in Windows (or
Windows-Windows and Linux-Linux, or Linux-Palm or whatever)

Note that running a server on Windows uses a single desktop, but running
it on Linux creates a seperate X session, which is only visible by VNC
clients. One of the many powers of X!

HTH

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
> Just to save me figuring this out for myself.. :-) :
> 
> Is VNC a client/server system, or just an X client?
> 
> I might use this on a Win98 machine, to connect to a Linux box running
> X - would I need to run VNC on the box as well as on the Windoze
> machine?
> 
> Baz.
> 
> Chris J/#6 writes:
> 
>  > As a note, it's better to run the vncserver on UNIX and use the Win32 viewer 
>  > rather than run the Win32 server and run the viewer on UNIX ... why? The X 
>  > vncserver is a lot faster than the Win32 vncserver...see the FAQ for more 
>  > info on why :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Barrie J. Bremner
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