Re: Two X questions
Kent West wrote:
>
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
> > 2) Is there a way to connect to a running X session. I can run remote X
> > programs through ssh with no problem, but I'd like to have a way to
> > actually VIEW a remote X session locally. (i.e. Be able to access my
> > currently logged in view on my desktop computer from my laptop.) With
> > what little I know of X this looks like it SHOULD work, but I have no
> > idea where to start.
>
> I would like this capability also, but have never figured it out. I
> believe the docs for VNC say that VNC doesn't do this, but it should be
> "trivial" to rewrite VNC so that it would. Of course, as far as I know,
> no one has bothered to do this trivial tweak. So the short answer is, "I
> don't know of such a way to do what you want.
VNC won't let you connect to an ordinary X server, but it will let you
connect twice to the same VNC server. So if you use VNC locally as well,
you should get what you want. And to avoid running 2 X servers on the
same box, you could run the SVGAlib VNC viewer.
Richard
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