[PLUG] Newby looking for GUI/PUTTY help

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 18:32:45 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Michael <michael at jamhome.us> wrote:
>
> Tom Elliott wrote:
>> I looked at Xming as my X windows software, with PUTTY, but that seemed like
>> it had a very steep learning curve. Freeware is important for this
>> home/student project.  Any and all suggestions will be appreciated!
>
> At the risk of repeating other fine suggestions ...
>
> Xmimg and putty wouldn't get you the full desktop anyway.
>
> Consider VNC or one of its ilk.  Full *nix desktop as a window on the host
> machine.  It can work in either direction ...
>

You can load up x11vnc to get at the displayed desktop.  Fedora has
remote desktop support
built in but it is not the same as the local display.



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