On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:07, Michael wrote: > > Hi folks. > > > > I've got a user who uses WinXP at his desk. He now has to use two > > desks, 10 feet apart, but still needs to use the one XP box. > > > > What I've thought of was to do a minimal X install, and then have > > instead of the KDE WM, have X fire straight into a vncviewer. > > > > Would this work, and what files to I need to change to get this to work? > > > > Am I right in thinking that without a WM to get in the way, vncviewer > > would run full-screen and key-sequences like alt-tab would be seen by > > vncviewer instead of being caught by the wm? > > -- > > Gary Stainburn > > use rdesktop/RDP, it only responds locally to cntrl-alt-enter and a magic > pixel depending on how you compile it. Everything else like cntrl alt > delete goes to the remote machine. Plus it is a lot faster/prettier than > vnc with compression, and more reliable/faster than things like > citrix.(just without some of the functionality of things like citrix) > > I set something like this up with solaris and sun rays. But for a few > hundred clients to a 2k3 terminal server. > > Fedora has a package, but http://rdesktop.sf.net is the site. I second rdesktop. It works like a charm for me. I even get better resolution using rdesktop than I do natively. As for running it at login, I just have an icon on the desktop and run it when needed. I just added it to my session, so it starts up when I login, and that works for me, too. You may want to look into IceWM for a smaller WM, but I just use GNOME. Forrest
