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I would like to start a vncserver on *NIX machine and then on the client side (windows XP) I would like to be able to have just the terminal from the server machine (like gnome-terminal) without having the full desktop displayed on my client machine. Also when I invoke gvim from that terminal I would like the gvim to open in its own window on the client. In this way it seems like the sever applications are almost part of the client.

I have done this before myself and I have seen others do this but I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it:

vncserver -headless ???

If anyone can help me jog my memory I would appreciate it.

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Use SSH with GNU Screen instead.

On the server, make sure you have SSH configured, and on the client use the built-in SSH command (Unix or Linux) or PuTTY (MS-Windows). GNU Screen will let you keep multiple sessions running without requiring that you keep your SSH session connected.

  PuTTY (free and open source)
  http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

  GNU Screen (free and open source)
  http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

But if you do have a GUI running on your headless server, there may be configuration options for your VNC server software that will allow you to use VNC only with a specific application window. I know that UltraVNC can do this.

  UltraVNC (free and open source)
  https://www.uvnc.com/

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