From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 07:07:13 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 AF36B16A419 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 07:07:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CBA43D53 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 07:07:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10D2290C38; Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59882-01; Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78358290C2C; Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BEE9C4759C; Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23D43C5C4; Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:09 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 04:07:09 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Parv In-Reply-To: <20060507065539.GA6330@holestein.holy.cow> Message-ID: <20060507040633.S36981@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org> <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <20060507065539.GA6330@holestein.holy.cow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Ow Mun Heng , 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 07:07:13 -0000 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