From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 23 02:31:21 2005 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 4943716A41F for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:31:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E119F43D46 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:31:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 23402 invoked by uid 502); 23 Sep 2005 02:31:18 -0000 Received: from dsl-12-178-99-132.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@12.178.99.132) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Sep 2005 02:31:18 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 12.178.99.132 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl-12-178-99-132.ywave.com Message-ID: <433368F5.5000507@ywave.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:31:17 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050908) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050923011331.GC12028@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20050923011331.GC12028@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: sharing desktop witn 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: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:31:21 -0000 stan wrote: > I'm trying to use tighvnc to "share" a desktop with a friend, > for educational purposes. > > I've been able to run vncserver on my local machine, and > connect to it with vncviewer. I've also been able to ssh to his > machine (with X forwarding turned on) and do the same thing, but > this is really slow. > > In the case of his FreebSD machine I just got the simple session > that xstart produces. > > How can I star vncserver on his FreebSD machine, such that I get > a full blown KDE desktop? This is BTW what he gets when he logs in > via kdm. Is there a way to share an already running > X session with vnc? Or do I have to start a new session using vncserver? KDE provides a VNC server that allows you to connect to an already running KDE session. From the KDE control center select "Internet & Network" --> "Desktop Sharing". Adjust the settings to your liking. I've had keyboard problems with it when connecting from the RealVNC client (massively repeated characters making it impossible to type anything). Later, Micah