[vox-tech] Window Managers

Nick Schmalenberger nick at schmalenberger.us
Wed Apr 22 12:38:44 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:12:54AM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> At school (Sac State) we log into a CENTOS system running GNOME, or I
> believe you can select your own Window Manager, and all seems to work
> fine. I hate VNC though. I haven't found a way for Alt-tab to work
> except with TightVNC, click the Alt key and then select Tab. Which still
> doesn't really work. The Alt-tab always go to the local host.
> 
> RDP seems to work a whole lot better. There isn't an RDP server for
> GNU/Linux, is there?
> 
> Isn't there a light weight X server out there for Winblows?
>
There is an rdp server for linux, xrdp. I've never tried it
though. I have  used the cygwin and xming windows x servers and
they both work well.


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