detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

[Eric Schuele]

On 11/13/06 03:42, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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> Luke Dean wrote:
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>> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
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>>> On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote:
>>>> I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the "screen"
>>>> utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application,
>>>> detach from it, and then reattach to it later to see how it's going.
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if there's a tool I can use that would allow me to do
>>>> that with GUI applications. 
>>> Could this be of use?
>>>  http://www.tightvnc.com/
>> Yes!  That's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.  I used VNC with
>> Windows years ago and it never occurred to me that it might be available
>> on other platforms.  Thanks for putting me on the right track.
>>
>> Luke
> 
> There is also a VNC server solution that ties into running X displays
> (called x11vnc under Gentoo Linux; not sure if it exists in the ports
> tree though), and an X11 solution that has been customized for high
> transfer rates referred to as either nx or nomachinex. I found standard
> VNC to be annoying since it requires a running X server instance, which
> is a waste depending on what I have running, and both solutions I
> mentioned earlier run well for many people (tried x11vnc but not
> nomachinex).
> - -Garrett
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Search ports for vnc... there are a couple in there.  x11vnc is one.  I 
thought there were more than I saw this morning.  I know there are a 
handful of projects out there.  But maybe only a few ported to FreeBSD.

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Regards,
Eric