I love Apple’s latest version of X11 under Mac OS X. It is fantastic:
- It uses standard OS X widgets for close/resize/minimize.
- You can Exposé X11 windows! You can put them into the dock!
- And you get a lot of other niceities of native OS X apps. You can even copy text from X11 windows into OS X windows!
- Optional root window could let you have your full X11 desktop.
- most importantly, I get to use my loud and obnoxious Fedora box from the comfort of my laptop.
Speaking of remote desktops, also of note is Microsoft’s fine Remote Desktop Client
for the Mac, which lets you connect to any Windows XP or 2000 server, should you care to. Why is it better than RealVNC?
- definitely faster
- when using it on a Mac with spanning monitors, you can have the Mac on one monitor and the PC on the other
- you can make the Dock pop up while in full screen mode when connected to a Windows box
- etc…
And while we’re on the topic, I have to say that Apple has really outdone themselves with their latest remote desktop solution. It’s a little big brotherish, but were I running a lab of Macs, I’d want something like this.. along with Mike Bombich’s great sysadmin software.
Comments
Feb 6 02004 2.52a
Andrew Reitz #
The one bad thing about Microsoft’s RDP client - you can only have one connection open at a time. So, if I want to connect to multiple Windows Terminal Servers simultaneously, what am I forced to do? Perform the old “RDP in RDP” trick, of course. Ug.
But, the nice thing is that I can apple-tab between OS X windows, and alt-tab between MS windows inside of the RDP client. And copy/paste between windows and OS X works pretty sell, too.
-Andy.