Remote Desktop Connection Woes

[Stephen Hilton]

Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:43:48 +0530
> Remington L <mrl0lz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>All:
>>I am looking for a way to VNC or to connect to my FreeBSD laptop,
>>running Xorg and GNOME. I can ssh into, but I do not have access to
>>GNOME.
>>
>>My question is, I know I cannot use VNC because I use Xorg. Does
>>anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> As others said, you can use VNC with Xorg. See the ports.
> 
> However,  if you want to share with VNC a display that is already
> active, for example the Gnome desktop you are working on, you can try
> 'net/x11vnc' (other VNC servers open a new display).
> 
> IIRC Gnome (and/or KDE) has an utility to share the desktop, based on
> VNC.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ale
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Vino is the Gnome projects VNC tool for connection to your
active desktop (display 0).

I have not used it yet myself, just passing along a link.

http://www.freshports.org/net/vino/

-Stephen Hilton