On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 17:59 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > > > More like desktop sharing. > > > > > > > > i only used the phrase "Remote Desktop" since that's how it appears in > > > > the GNOME menu. > > > > > > Bizarre. I'm looking at http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html > > > > > > It's clear it's talking about desktop sharing (or remote assistance), and > > > not remote desktop as anyone else uses the term. > > > > > > > > > AFAIK this is the only remote desktop client for Linux: > > > http://www.rdesktop.org/ > > > > That's for the Windows remote desktop protocol and there is no corresponding > > server. If you want something with equivalent performance on Linux, look at > > freenx with the NX clients from www.nomachine.com. The current freenx server > > can't share the active console session though, you have to start new sessions > > when you first connect and then you have the choice of suspending or > > terminating them when you disconnect. The commercial NX server claims to > > allow connections to the console but I haven't tried it. > > ok, i'm clearly going to have to take a deep breath and collect all > this info and collate it. and it seemed like such a simple project in > the beginning ... It was the thought that counts. ;) Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
