[squeak-dev] Squeak/Seaside on a no-GUI remote host

Joshua Gargus schwa at fastmail.us
Sat Jul 5 19:03:31 UTC 2008


On Jul 5, 2008, at 11:32 AM, John Chandler wrote:

> On Jul 4, 2008, at 10:16 PM, Avi Bryant wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM, John Chandler <morph at growler.net>  
>> wrote:
>>> I have shell (ssh) access to a Debian host that has a DNS-able
>>> address, but no X-server.  The little I've done in Squeak has all  
>>> been
>>> from the GUI, which depends on X or a similar console GUI, which I
>>> don't have access to.  I mean, *theoretically,* I could run X, but I
>>> seriously doubt I could get it to display on my machine, which lives
>>> on a private net in a residential setting.
>>>
>>> It must be possible to develop for Squeak/Seaside under these
>>> conditions, but it's not clear to me what the best way would be.
>>> Clues?
>>
>> Install the RFBServer package.  This lets you use VNC to use the
>> Squeak GUI remotely, and with much better performance than you would
>> have gotten from X.
>>
>> Avi
>>
>
> When you say RFBServer, you are speaking of vnc, correct?  Debian  
> doesn't
> seem to have a package called RFBserver, but vnc does refer in docs,  
> comments,
> and source filenames to the concept of a remote file buffer.

Avi is talking about a Squeak package called RFBServer.

Josh



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