[Cialug] "screen" for X

[Chris Hilton]

I think you need to differentiate it from what people typically think of
as a frame buffer..  Which, TMK, is something on a tty that allows you
to see something other than a character map.

That's probably what Paul thought you were talking about.

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:33 -0500, James Shoemaker wrote:
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> Paul Gray wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:52:00PM -0500, James Shoemaker wrote:
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> >>	VNC is frame-buffer based instead of application based like X, so it is
> >>much less useful.
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> > 
> > VNC isn't "frame-buffer based."  It has nothing to do with frame-buffers.
> > 
> from the realvnc web-site:
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> The VNC protocol is a simple protocol for remote access to graphical
> user interfaces.   It is based on the concept of a remote framebuffer or
> RFB.
> 
> sounds frame-buffer based to me.
> 
> James
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