Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote:
in message <20060506223053.X36981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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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