Documented in the wiki is a procedure to remote an entire Sugar session to a remote display using X.
See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Remote_Display For details. - Jim On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:11 +0300, Zvi Devir wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just gave two nice presentations of the XO machine at the Haifa > Linux Club and at Google Haifa/Israel. I decided it will be more > interesting to run the presentation slides from the XO machine itself. > It took the audience some time to realize that, which added magic to the > lecture. Since the XO machine was literally with no strings attached, it > was really a wireless presentation ;) > > The trick is to install RealVNC, and run x0vncserver on the XO machine. > A second machine, with a proper VGA port, is connected to the same Wifi > network, and is running a vncviewer that clones the XO display. > > > Here are the details for those who are interested. > 1. Fetch the vnc-server rpm (I've used vnc-server-4.1.2-9.fc6.1386.rpm), > and install it (--nodeps). > 2. Create a password file using vncpasswd. > > Before the presentation, > 3. Open a developer console. > 4. Run the x0vnceserver *nicely* from the developer terminal (as the > server should clones the current display). I was using the following > command: > nice -19 x0vncserver PasswordFile=~olpc/.vnc/passwd & ; disown > It is possible to run the x0vncserver in "viewing only" mode by > providing the following additional options > AcceptPointerEvents=0 AcceptKeyEvents=0 > I simply created a small script file for that. > 5. Check your current IP address (ifconfig eth0). > 6. Close the console. > > 7. In the other machine, run the vnc client. > vncviewer 192.168.xxx.xxx FullScreen=1 ViewOnly=1 > (replace the 192.168.xxx.xxx with your XO IP address). > > > However, running the vnc server took almost 100% CPU, for no apparent > reason. Therefore, it must be run very very nicely (nice +19), since > otherwise nothing else can be executed without the watchdog starting to > bark. I don't know if it is a x0vncserver bug, or some problems with > Sugar that send some messages all the time. > > Regards, > Zvi Devir > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
