Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? I don't think one could use plain VNC (realvnc, tightvnc such) to move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that is possible. Coming from a Linux background, There _is_ such support. There's one called 'vino' * net-misc/vino Latest version available: 2.12.0 Latest version installed: 2.12.0 Size of downloaded files: 1,654 kB Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/ Description: An integrated VNC server for GNOME License: GPL-2 which essentially does that. it connects to a running session. If not mistaken, there is a VNC server edition that does that too There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. - Parv -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:02:42 up 9:32, 3 users, load average: 1.79, 1.19, 0.90 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? I don't think one could use plain VNC (realvnc, tightvnc such) to move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that is possible. Coming from a Linux background, There _is_ such support. There's one called 'vino' * net-misc/vino Latest version available: 2.12.0 Latest version installed: 2.12.0 Size of downloaded files: 1,654 kB Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/ Description: An integrated VNC server for GNOME License: GPL-2 which essentially does that. it connects to a running session. Thanks for the additional data. Looking at the dependency list, vino seems to be appropriate only for those who have large part of gnome already installed. If not mistaken, there is a VNC server edition that does that too ... There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Ow Mun Heng thusly... On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 01:34 -0400, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? I don't think one could use plain VNC (realvnc, tightvnc such) to move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that is possible. Coming from a Linux background, There _is_ such support. There's one called 'vino' * net-misc/vino Latest version available: 2.12.0 Latest version installed: 2.12.0 Size of downloaded files: 1,654 kB Homepage:http://www.gnome.org/ Description: An integrated VNC server for GNOME License: GPL-2 which essentially does that. it connects to a running session. Thanks for the additional data. Looking at the dependency list, vino seems to be appropriate only for those who have large part of gnome already installed. That was what I found also, and I'm using KDE on our machines ... x11vnc seems to work well though, just installed it and can easily work with the remote machine ... Thx ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
Marc G. Fournier sat at his 'puter and typed on 5/7/2006 7:02: I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? VNC had also been ported to FreeBSD. You can try something like tightvnc. Thanks and Best Regards Subhro ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remote 'viewing / control' of X Windows
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Marc G. Fournier thusly... I'm dealing with a situation where I'm migrating ppl over to using X vs M$ Windows ... I'd like to be able to help them out remotely, similar to how I can with VNC for Windows ... Is there something similar for Unix that would allow me to 'piggyback' in such a way that they're X desktop is an xterm on my machine, so that I can move their mouse around, show them the steps to do something, etc? I don't think one could use plain VNC (realvnc, tightvnc such) to move mouse on already running X session. Please let me know if that is possible. There, however, is x11vnc port (net/x11vnc) which can connects to already running X instance which should fulfill Marc's requirement. See also x2vnc (x11-servers/x2vnc) port. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
