There is another option. In which you can have your cake and eat it too! If your "Console" was a vnc session, you could allow multiple connections to it, and then you could connect to you "Console".
You'll note the quotes around "Console" since in Unix/Linux there is nothing special about the "Concole" session, other than it is physically connected to a (the only?) local graphic card. On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 12:28, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ashutosh Dutta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I just downloaded 3.3.6 VNC for Linux. I am running vncserver > > in one Linux > > box and am running vncviewer in another Linux box. Although I > > try to run > > vncviewer in another Linux box, I can just open another > > Xterminal. I would > > like to be able to export (grab) the desktop of the server > > and be able to > > see what is going on in the server. Is there way to achieve > > that using VNC program? > > > > On unix (that includes linux) implementations of vnc, you get a fresh X11 > session inside the default vncviewer. You never get the console. > > As far as I know the history of vnc, this unix way of giving a new session > was the origional goal of all vnc but could not be done (easy) in M$Windows. > So the M$Windows behavoure alters from the other vnc implementations by > giving the console. > > If you like to get the console on a unix/linux machine, have a look at the > next sites, all with their own advantages and disadvantages: > http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/ > http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/ > > The are all alternate vnc-servers with some restrictions and advantages. > > CBee > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
