Bit depths in X

[Dan Coutu]

Mark Komarinski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:01:25AM -0500, Dan Coutu wrote:
> 
>>Mark Komarinski wrote:
>>
>>>VNC is nice in that I could have it start up a DTE different from the main
>>>display.  But that was a bad thing, as now the users had to fight with
>>>GNOME/KDE and FVWM.  The bigger problem is I had to show them to start
>>>VNC, connect to the proper display, and then (important!) shut down
>>>VNC when they were done with it.  These are postdocs who stay logged in
>>>for weeks at a time.  I had visions of 150 VNC sessions running at once.
>>
>>Are you saying that you have 150 different people needing to use VNC?
> 
>  
> No, but I could see them following my instructions to start VNC and
> have 150 instances for one user because they forget to stop it.
> 
> -Mark

Okay, maybe I wasn't clear. The idea is that that they *do not stop* the 
server. They just disconnect now and reconnect later. The VNC client lets 
you specify which display server to connect to on the remote machine. So 
each user gets one assigned server and that is the only one they can use. 
You can prevent getting lots of servers running by not allowing users to 
have sufficient privileges to run the server on their own. Simple.

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