Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 23:02:58 -0700 From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows Message-ID: <1146981778.30226.4.camel@neuromancer.home.net> In-Reply-To: <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20060506223053.X36981@ganymede.hub.org> <20060507053416.GA4701@holestein.holy.cow>
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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
>
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