From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 28 06:58:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1F31065678 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:58:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9578FC2D for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:58:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from pvr.pobox.com ([72.135.242.46]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090328001748.YMQB23691.hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com@pvr.pobox.com>; Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:17:48 +0000 Received: from mail.nethamilton.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pvr.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFFAA2C0E1; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 10.168.2.101 (SquirrelMail authenticated user hamilton) by mail.nethamilton.net with HTTP; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <52810.10.168.2.101.1238199835.squirrel@mail.nethamilton.net> In-Reply-To: <49CCCE9F.30607@manlief.com> References: <49CCCE9F.30607@manlief.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:23:55 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jon Hamilton" To: "Mike Manlief" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share X instance with VNC? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:58:23 -0000 On Fri, March 27, 2009 08:03, Mike Manlief wrote: > Is it possible to access a normal (connected to vga) Xorg instance from > VNC as well? I'd like to remotely access my X desktop at home without > having to run multiple sessions. Yep. Just set up x11vnc - you can configure it a variety of ways. You may want to look at tunneling it over ssh and/or setting up some of the authorization checks which by default are disabled. It's not necessarily snappy, and depending on the screen size and resolution on both ends, may be a little unwieldy and require some scrolling to get to the entire remote desktop, but it gets the job done. Depending on what you need, it may be sufficient (i.e. some long running thing running on your home machine which you want to check on or which you want to push a button etc) - but it's probably going to be frustrating if you expect to use it interactively for any length of time. Easy enough to set up and try out, though. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com