[wplug] VNC/X-Win32 alternative

Ben Beige gunnar at zbzoom.net
Tue Jun 3 15:28:38 EDT 2003


If you don't like the mouse, why use X at all?

At 09:55 PM 6/2/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
>
> >
> >
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Bob Schmertz
>
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