Hi I have a situation, where I would like to see what the student sees on his/her screen, and interviene if needed. Xvnc does open a new "x-session" on the remote, but what I need is to follow/control the actual screen that the student has on front of him/her. There is a local network with ethernet connected to 5 Linux (SuSE 7.3) computers along with the teacher computer with same OS. Any software recommandations? Jaska.
Just use VNC as you tried so far. As you start it up on the student machines specify the Xsession to "follow". I tried this any number of times in the past. Works like a charm. I think i did it this way... (Long time ago) On the student : vncserver :0 On teachers : vncviewer <studenmachine>:0 -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu mob : +46 70 464 99 39 --------------------------Public PGP fingerprint------------------------------ < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
Hi I tried that one, but it does not work. When I start vnc before KDE, then KDE complains that the display is already active. If I try to start vncserver :0 after starting KDE, vncserver says "A VNC server is already running as :0", but there is only KDE running, so vncviever does not connect... So this is not working for me.. I need to see the actual screen of the student. Jaska. On Sunday 30 June 2002 13:49, Rikard "DustPuppy" Johnels wrote:
Just use VNC as you tried so far. As you start it up on the student machines specify the Xsession to "follow". I tried this any number of times in the past. Works like a charm.
I think i did it this way... (Long time ago)
On the student : vncserver :0 On teachers : vncviewer <studenmachine>:0
On Sunday 30 June 2002 06:13 am, jaakko tamminen wrote:
Hi
I tried that one, but it does not work.
When I start vnc before KDE, then KDE complains that the display is already active.
If I try to start vncserver :0 after starting KDE, vncserver says "A VNC server is already running as :0", but there is only KDE running, so vncviever does not connect...
So this is not working for me.. I need to see the actual screen of the student.
Jaska.
Well, I use to change the ~/.vnc/xstartup script where it says twm to kde. When the client's desktop first comes up, you have to kill twm and start kde. I think after that, it usually comes up as kde. I haven't done this for awhile, but I seem to remember that it did not work with kde2 like it did with kde. I used to get the client's kde desktop, but not as I can for a Windows user's desktop. eg: I couldn't actually see them at work. However, you might play around with it. I think I will today, also, and I will report back if I come up with anything. I use VNC to watch my kids' desktops which are Win98 machines, and it works great, and I especially like having found out about x2x from this list, but I've never gotten the same results from linux-linux. Clear as mud, I know, but I believe the xstartup script is where you want to be. Tom -- TRBishop tb64710@alltel.net SuSE 7.3 Pro
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