On 17/11/2013 20:40, Emilio Lopez wrote:
I think what you are looking for is x11vnc which allows you to view local session by vnc EmilioLLBB
Emilio, brilliant, I'd missed the need for it. Installed, and after reading man x11vnc - it's quite long - used: $ x11vnc -display :0Gave us the user's desktop remotely, at 1440 x 900. Just what we wanted to achieve.
On 17/11/2013 20:53, Reco wrote:
It's like this: 1) You need to be able to run some X app over network - you use vnc4server or tightvnc. You run it over VNC - any local user won't notice anything. 2) You need to be able to control X display of a local user - you use x11vnc, which attaches to a local X display. You run something over VNC - local user immediately sees that someone's moving windows on their desktop.
This is very interesting. I'd assumed that VNC only let you into the user's session, but explained this way it is much more capable than I'd thought, and this explains why I saw its 'new' sessions each time I tried. Whilst our use-case, to date, has been to access the user's session, I think this could be useful in the future.
Neal's remarks about screen virtualisation raise the prospect of setting up some multi-segment sessions on larger screens; these could help at some presentation and training events.
Very useful thread, my thanks to the list, we're up and running with VNC on Wheezy/XFCE now.
regards, Ron