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

[Francois Tigeot]

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.
 
> > 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/

-- 
Francois Tigeot