On Thu, 20 May 2004 01:44:46 +1200
Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Don Gould wrote:
> | When I use VNC on a win pc I get the desktop that the user sees.
> |
> | When I use VNC on a nix pc I don't get the desktop the user sees, I get a
> | different one....
> |
> | I want to see what the current logged on user is seeing.
> |
> | What's the simplest way to do this?
> |
> | I want to be able to view it from my win98 laptop.
> |
> | Cheers Don
> 
> I just had another quick look at x11vnc and since I last tried it, its
> working damn simply and damn well.
> 
> Just login, start x11vnc and attach it to a running desktop, then
> connect via vnc. No mess, no fuss, no local latency problems :)
> 
> http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/
> 
> Sascha

well i can confirm that works, even slowly over a 128k connection.

unfortunately it doesn't seem to ask for a password. i'll have to fix
that. in the meantime the port forward has been disabled!

if someone wants to do this in gentoo, the x11vnc binary is made when
you emerge libvncserver


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