Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:08:26 -0800, Steven Susbauer wrote: As stated before, x11vnc is by far the easiest system to set this up with. When you have an x session running, you can run x11vnc (that's all you need to type) and then connect from anywhere. You can also make the current KDE desktop

[gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel D Jones
Is there a utility that will allow you to take control of the current Linux desktop from a remote machine? This is the way VNC works in windows. Open VNC on a remote machine and you see the exact same thing you see on the local monitor, including any running programs. Under Linux, however,

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/18/05, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need. Are there, perhaps, any VNC app which offers this feature under Linux? x11-misc/x11vnc should do what you want. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Is there a utility that will allow you to take control of the current Linux desktop from a remote machine? This is the way VNC works in windows. Open VNC on a remote machine and you see the exact same thing you see on the local

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Ryan
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_TightVNC_connecting_to_current_session The wiki thing is a useful tool if you search for things on it. It may not have everything, but it did have what you were lookin for. Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Steven Susbauer
As stated before, x11vnc is by far the easiest system to set this up with. When you have an x session running, you can run x11vnc (that's all you need to type) and then connect from anywhere. You can even run the command over an ssh connection. My favorite way of using this is through putty, just