Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Parv wrote:

> in message <1146981778.30226.4.camel at neuromancer.home.net>,
> wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly...
>>
>> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote:
>>> in message <20060506223053.X36981 at 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 ...

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