[olug] Windows Xserver

Phil Brutsche phil at brutsche.us
Thu Dec 4 17:43:59 UTC 2008


Christopher Cashell wrote:
> Not sure how well it would work in the above mentioned situation,
> though.  I always got the impression it was more similar to a Remote
> Desktop type option.

Either way it's the same in the end.

In an NX environment the X11 server runs on the remote machine, and it
uses a non-X11 mechanism running over SSH to bring the remote display to
you.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us



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