From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 06:03:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237D616A400 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 06:03:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com) Received: from mail.globalsuite.net (mail.globalsuite.net [69.46.103.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFC8C43D46 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 06:03:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com) Received: from neuromancer.home.net (unknown [65.205.219.195]) by mail.globalsuite.net (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 42934B00 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 00:03:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4762wtW008040; Sat, 6 May 2006 23:02:59 -0700 From: Ow Mun Heng To: Parv In-Reply-To: <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org> <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 23:02:58 -0700 Message-Id: <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows 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: Sun, 07 May 2006 06:03:15 -0000 On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org>, > wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... > > > > 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? > > I don't think one could use plain VNC (realvnc, tightvnc & such) to > move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that > is possible. Coming from a Linux background, There _is_ such support. There's one called 'vino' * net-misc/vino Latest version available: 2.12.0 Latest version installed: 2.12.0 Size of downloaded files: 1,654 kB Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/ Description: An integrated VNC server for GNOME License: GPL-2 which essentially does that. it connects to a running session. If not mistaken, there is a VNC server edition that does that too > > There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to > already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. > See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. > > > - Parv > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:02:42 up 9:32, 3 users, load average: 1.79, 1.19, 0.90