What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

[Marton Kenyeres]

Francois Tigeot wrote:
 > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:20:03PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 >
 >>On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:03:41 +0200
 >>Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
 >>
 >>
 >>>Stock X is sufficient.
 >>
 >>Well, stock X will probably work. I have used that in the past on a
 >>per-program basis. You know, the 'DISPLAY=host:0.0 program ...' routine.
 >>
 >>I'm sorry that my little question lacked enough detail to avoid all this
 >>confusion. On the other hand, it sparked an interssting debate. :)
 >>The enironment is LAN.
 >>The reason that I forgot to mention stock X, is that vnc (which I'm
 >>partial to, since that's what I have been using) is so much easier to
 >>use:
 >>a) it gives me a complete X desktop which is separate from the X desktop
 >>I use when I log in locally. This means I can tailor the remote desktop
 >>to another wm, another display size and so on.
 >
 >
 > You could probably do this by customizing  ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession.
 > I agree it would not be the easiest thing to do, though
 >
 >
 >>b) it allows me to run the display in a web browser (java required)
 >
 >
 > This seems to be a good reason to use VNC.

Yeah, but take a look at: http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx/
It's a pure java based GPL'd XServer. Can be run as an applet too. I'm 
in no way affiliated with them, but I must admit it's quite cool.

 >
 >
 >>>My users use ThinBSD based thin clients to connect to a
 >>>FreeBSD/amd64 server.
 >>
 >>And on the server you run xdm or something like that?
 >
 >
 > I run xdm, yes.
 > Since I do not like the "official" way to launch it from /etc/ttys, I 
made
 > a port which provides a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d :
 >
 > http://www.thinbsd.org/cvsweb/ThinBSD/ports/xdm-rc/
 >

WierdX claims to support XDMCP, altough I never tried it myself.

Cheers,

m.