Hi all, I have been following this thread and I wonder is there a similar prog/utility to grab a current console session? This would be very handy for me where I have multiple PC's running seti@home with no monitors, keyboards etc. I need to access them from time to time and start up a new session (after a power cut or such like). At the moment I have to connect a monitor and keyboard to each unit, start it up and then switch to the next one. If I telnet, I am going in on a pseudo terminal where I want to actually take over the console and see what is on there. I hope you all understand what I mean........ Any help appreciated. Regards, Keith Gibbons, StarDate Computer Service, SCS House, Garrymore, Geashill, Co.Offaly, Ireland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stewart" <andystewart@attbi.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] VNC On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:17 pm, Greg Engel wrote:
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver, which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking. The URL is: http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on another machine on my home network. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Stewart" <andystewart@attbi.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] VNC On Sunday 25 August 2002 12:17 pm, Greg Engel wrote:
On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 22:28, Art Fore wrote:
No, that is not quite what I had in mind. I wanted so that if my wife had problems on her computer, I could connect with mine and show her by taking over her desktop which she could also operate. Would keep me from running up and down stairs all of the time.
Look on the VNC site. I seem to remember under the links or contributions someone had written a tool to allowed you to export a running X session on the box to vnc.
After looking on the VNC website, I discovered a tool called x0rfbserver, which will take an existing display and "export" it such that a remote VNC viewer can see it. I think this is the tool that Art is seeking. The URL is: http://www.hexonet.de/software/x0rfbserver/index.html I tried it out and it made my :0 display available to a VNC viewer on another machine on my home network. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com