On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:30:34PM +0200, Morbo wrote: > Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some > switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a > fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux > machine if I want to use it. I'm also want to try some free X servers for > Win32 (any suggestions?) so that I could actually log in through X.
What you describe is the configuration recommended by the authors of VNC. (Of course, everyone I know who uses VNC has a linux desktop and runs a VNC server on the Windows box...) > Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the > Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the > connection again with the started applications continueing to run? Yup. If you can just let it run, `nohup somecommand --args &` will let it keep running even after you log out. If you want to reconnect with the task for further interaction at some point in the future, use screen. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
