Mark Knecht wrote:
What I want to do is actually log in as one of them, start a Gnome session and see their desktop as they would see it but displayed here 350 miles away in a window on my machine.
Ah, what you want is remote framebuffer support.kde-base/krfb will do the trick, and I know there is a gnome equivalent (but I don't know what it is called). It uses vnc, and it essentially runs as a daemon if you configure it correctly.
I'm not sure where it is, but I'm guessing somewhere in the gnome control panel you can enable it. Then you can connect to display :0 and see whatever is on the console. Note that I'm not sure if you'll see anything using direct hardware rendering (like mplayer-using-xv/etc). And as you expect it is a bit slow.
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