Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 02:55:39 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows Message-ID: <20060507065539.GA6330@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> References: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org> <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net>
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in message <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net>, wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... > > 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. Thanks for the additional data. Looking at the dependency list, vino seems to be appropriate only for those who have large part of gnome already installed. > 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 --
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