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VNC/Linux display looks very different from the actual Ingo Pakleppa 14 Sep 2003 20:03:23 -0700

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Hi Mark,

I'm not sure in what respect the display would look different.

But there is at least one difference, in that VNC/Linux creates a second
display completely separate from you the one that you work on at the
console. Essentially, it is as if you had a second keyboard, mouse and
monitor for the same computer.

VNC/Windows, in contrast, shares the same screen. So if you move the
mouse in VNC/Windows, it would move both on your VNC client and on the
server. If you open a window from the VNC client, it would show up on
the Windows desktop, and so on.

So in this respect, VNC/Windows and Linux behave differently, and the
Linux behavior is a bit unexpected.

Is this how the displays are "different?" If not, please let me know,
and I'll see what else may cause this.

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