You might have a look a VNC (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/). It's
like PC anywhere, but multi-platform. You can start the VNC server in X,
then use the VNC client to shadow the session.
VNC is provided with Mandrake 7.
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:55:36 +0100
> From: Iwan van der Kleyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "* Mandrake Expert Mailing List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [expert] Shadowing / intercepting X-sessions?
>
> In a Citrix environment (Winframe or Metaframe) it is possible for an
> administrator to "shadow" a user-session. That is: to monitor the screen of
> a user and to take it over. Arguably a rather drastic tool (with regard to
> privacy-matters) but quite convenient when helping "users-in-distress". Is
> it possible to do the same with XFree86?
>
> Thanks,
> Iwan
>