[ale] VNC and remonte control Linux

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 08:15 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> There was a discussion about vnc here a long time back along those
> lines. Essential, vnc displays the only screen in a M$ environment, but
> *nix gets a new screen unless special steps are taken. I don't remember
> the details of hand, but it involved possibly the use of the screen
> command coupled with xdm/kdm/gdm. It was good for remote access, but the
> console user had to jump through hoops to make it work.

This is automatic in KDE 3.1.  It has a built in vnc server, so your 
desktop is always available.  Doesn't seem to slow things down at all, as 
I feared.

Michael

> Try a google search on the ALE archives.
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 08:07, David Hamm wrote:
> > Has anyone used VNC to take control of a remote X desktop session on a
> > Linux box?  I'd like to show a remote user how to do something and VNC
> > only seems to give me a new desktop I can't take control of the user's
> > desktop.
> >
> > David Hamm
> > Imaging Technologies Services, Inc.
> > 655 Lambert Drive
> > Atlanta, GA 30324
> > dhamm at itserve.com
> > 404-888-6337
> >
> >
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