Remotely helping with X

Steven Danz steven-danz at kc.rr.com
Sat May 31 02:09:21 CDT 2003


There is the  x0rfbserver 
(http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html), but it
isn't the speediest thing out there.
There is also a vnc.so module if you are running XFree 4.3 at 
http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net

Parker, Ron wrote:

>Frequently my wife calls from home for a little computer help.  She's not a
>geek, but is learning fast.  It would be really convenient if I could set
>something up that works like VNC on (shudder) Windows, where I could
>actually see what she is doing and help out.  Does VNC allow you to attach
>remotely to an existing X server or does it create a completely separate
>DISPLAY?  What other solutions are there?
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