VNC

I'm half expecting Apple to release remote GUI login in some form at some time in the future... but VNC, for reasons mentioned above, would be nice too. The man page for the Open command (which treats files as if you opened them in the GUI) list this option: -NXHost opens the file on the specified host (if its win- dow server is public). I've tried...

It sure is WindowMaker. I have it running via VNC with Xvnc. ...

I have been attempting to get a GNOME desktop setup on my OS X PB system. I am using XFree86 4.0.2 and Xvnc installed (and using a Aqua VNC client to view X apps). The big problem I am having is compiling the gnome-libs. Gnome has a heavy dependency on shared libraries in the various components, and OS X does shared libraries a bit differently than most other Unix/Linux...

And, the idea of windows and X sharing the same windowing environment has been around even longer! :-) Try: http://www.winehq.com/about.shtml

boult -- You are right about GAIM vs. Fire. GAIM totally wins, feature-wise. Also, thanks a lot for the link to the ported libs -- that will help a lot! If you have a fast connection, you might try to get the dev tools from apple. If you are at all comfortable with the CLI, often it is not too hard to get a program compiled. Look in other threads for more exact...

And now a note as to why a VNC Server for OS X would be a good thing, even if we get OS X native forwarding. ...

t convinced me at all why an OS X VNC server is impossible, or even the reasons why you find my thoughts so laughable. ...

s Xtools to run X11 apps but prefer a VNC window. ...

I have read, can\'t remember where now, that Quartz has remote display capabilities buit in. Not that they\'re available right now, as of PB, and perhaps won\'t be as of 1.0, but that somewhere in the future, they could be. Given that there is a reasonable separation between the apps and the window server/manager in OS X (unlike OS 6-9 ? ), it shouldn\'t be too difficult....

1) Incorrect. You can always encrypt any tcp stream. Apple will NOT have to design a new tool |-p 2) There are a few 3rd party PDF viewers. One could be converted into a remote PDF viewer. We already have display ghostscript for postscript, why not for PDF as well? (ghostscript can render PDF documents) What makes you think a VNC-like solution would be faster than a...