Jerry Feldman writes:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:51:41 -0700 (PDT) ti@amb.org (Ti Kan) wrote:
Jerry Feldman writes:
Can a KDE desktop be shared by multiple clients (for viewing only). A user group might want to provide a desktop view to remote clients. I was not able to locate a definitive source where it either allowed or disallowed multiple VNC connections.
The shared desktop must be running in a virtual X display (not the physical one that is "attached" to the console). You can, of course, open a VNC viewer window from your console's desktop to the virtual desktop. I have done this, but only as a different user between the physical desktop and the virtual desktop. Otherwise the virtual desktop has trouble starting up (it seems that KDE only allows one login instance per user at a time on the same home directory).
Thanks. Let me state exactly what the person wants: He wants to be able to broadcast a presentation (and possibly the audio but not the video) from a user group meeting. I think that KDE desktop sharing might be an overkill.
The audio might be a bit tricky, you'll probably need to set up something fancy with network sound. What I've done with this sort of thing in the past was to simply use the speaker phone at the presentation, and let remote viewers dial in on a conference line. Lower tech, but it worked :). -Ti