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Date:      Sun, 07 May 2006 09:20:23 +0530
From:      Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
Message-ID:  <445D6E7F.9000603@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org>

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Marc G. Fournier sat at his 'puter and typed on 5/7/2006 7:02:
>
> I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X 
> vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, 
> similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ...
>
> Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' 
> in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so 
> that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do 
> something, etc?

VNC had also been ported to FreeBSD. You can try something like tightvnc.

Thanks and Best Regards
Subhro



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