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Sourcetrunk (Episode 026)

Submitted by dimitri on Thu, 2007-09-13 11:41

This episode will demonstrate how to remote desktop your way into a simple or complex, existing X11 session with x11vnc, take a look at the excellent XML Copy Editor and show you widget-o-rama with SuperKaramba

I. System Tools : x11vnc
11vnc allows one to view remotely and interact with real X displays (i.e. a display corresponding to a physical monitor, keyboard, and mouse) with any VNC viewer. In this way it plays the role for Unix/X11 that WinVNC plays for Windows.

It has built-in SSL encryption and authentication, UNIX account and password support, server-side scaling, single port HTTPS and VNC, mDNS service advertising, and TightVNC and UltraVNC file-transfer. It has also been extended to work with non-X devices: webcams and TV tuner capture devices, embedded Linux systems such as Qtopia Core, and natively on Mac OS X Aqua/Quartz.

use it encrypted :
% ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 (yourserverip) ’x11vnc -localhost -display :0’

x11vnc

II. System Tools : XML Copy Editor
XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor. Features :

* DTD/XML Schema/RELAX NG validation
* XSLT
* XPath
* Pretty-printing
* Syntax highlighting
* Folding
* Tag completion
* Tag locking
* Tag-free editing
* Spelling and style check
* Built-in support for XHTML, XSL, DocBook and TEI
* Lossless import and export of Microsoft Word documents (Windows only)

xml copy editor

III. The Little Extra : SuperKaramba
SuperKaramba is, in simple terms, a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop. Currently, only linux is officially supported.

SuperKaramba



music from Ethereal on music.podshow.com
theme from Brand New Sin on music.podshow.com

beer on this episode : Brugse Zot

Comments

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Submitted by Michal (not verified) on Fri, 2007-09-14 12:41

Hi Dimi,

you've mentioned that you are using Debian with Fluxbox.

Since most Linux users are using GNOME and KDE.

Any chance of getting an episode exclusively on how to get Fluxbox up and running on Debian?

Michal

Submitted by dimitri on Fri, 2007-09-14 13:09

Hi Michal,

>Any chance of getting an episode exclusively on how to get Fluxbox up and running on Debian?

sure, I could do an episode on Fluxbox and elaborate a bit on how to install / configure and use it, and not only explain for Debian, but for a lot of distro's and BSD's.

great idea, will do.

thanks for the feedback,
Dimi.

Submitted by Michal (not verified) on Fri, 2007-09-14 23:55

Yahoooo!!!!

I don't have to lost sleep over how to configure fluxbox anymore !!

:-)

Michal

Submitted by Cd-MaN (not verified) on Sat, 2007-09-29 16:02

Just wanted to let you know that I love your show (although I don't know about any easy way to get Belgian beer in Romania ;-)). SSH port forwarding is great, but I can never remember the order for the parameters, so I made some quick drawings:

http://hype-free.blogspot.com/2006/10/quick-port-forwarding-guide.html

Best regards.

Submitted by dimitri on Sun, 2007-09-30 07:15

Hi,

I hope I will get some beer information from other listeners within Romania, so I can share this with you :)

thanks for the drawing, this really comes in handy, nice blog also.

regards,
Dimi.