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Operating Systems Solaris is x11 and vnc different? Post 302533656 by Corona688 on Friday 24th of June 2011 10:29:27 AM
Old 06-24-2011
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x11 is the standard UNIX window server. It mostly amounts to a device driver. Window manager software like Gnome, KDE, and Fluxbox all work on top of it.

vnc is something used to communicate window sessions between two computers, it's not a window server of its own. It's not just limited to X11, VNC clients and servers exist for Windows as well.

xvfb is a variant of x11, with only a virtual/fake screen, used for testing purposes. Sometimes it's used in concert with vnc, so you can run graphical software on a remote machine that doesn't have any graphical hardware.
 

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remote-viewer

REMOTE-VIEWER(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  REMOTE-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       remote-viewer - a simple remote desktop client

SYNOPSIS

       remote-viewer [OPTIONS] URI

DESCRIPTION

       remote-viewer is a simple remote display client. The supported protocols are SPICE and VNC.

OPTIONS

       The following options are accepted when running "remote-viewer":

       -h, --help
	   Display command line help summary

       -V, --version
	   Display program version number

       -v, --verbose
	   Display information about the connection

       -z PCT, --zoom=PCT
	   Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-200.

       -f, --full-screen
	   Start with the window maximised to fullscreen

       --spice-controller
	   Use the SPICE controller to initialize the connection with the SPICE server. This option is used by the SPICE browser addons to allow
	   web page to start a client.

       --debug
	   Print debugging information

EXAMPLES

       To connect to SPICE server on host "makai" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer spice://makai:5900

       To connect to VNC server on host "tsingy" with port 5900

	  remote-viewer vnc://tsingy:5900

BUGS

       Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list"

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc., and various contributors.  This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       "virt-viewer(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28							  REMOTE-VIEWER(1)
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