[wplug] VNC/X-Win32 alternative

[Bob Schmertz]

Gentgeen incurred the wrath of Bob on Jun 2, by saying

>Maybe I'm missing something here, but what about one of the VNCs.  I
>have a Win98, Win95, and Redhat 7.2 machines in my house, and I use VNC
>to control any of the boxes from another.

VNC is pretty viable, too.  It has the added benefit that you can just 
close your window, shut down your PC, come back the next day, and 
restart your VNC session where you left off.

But AFAICT it doesn't do cut-and-paste with Windows.  And it doesn't 
receive certain keyboard events.  For instance, since I like to use 
Exceed (and, as of today, XFree) in X-in-a-box mode, I like to map Alt-` 
to next-window in the window manager in my X session.  Well, VNC doesn't 
listen to that keyboard command.  I really can't live without my 
keyboard-driven task switching; I hate the rodent.  So I avoid using 
VNC, unless I'm planning to have one of those things where its 
persistence would come in useful.

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz