Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:09 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows Message-ID: <20060507040633.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060507065539.GA6330@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org> <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20060507065539.GA6330@holestein.holy.cow>
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On Sun, 7 May 2006, Parv wrote: > 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. That was what I found also, and I'm using KDE on our machines ... x11vnc seems to work well though, just installed it and can easily work with the remote machine ... Thx ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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