On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:09:03AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 06:32, Tim wrote: > > > I've left some GUI applications running on a remote PC and want to keep > > tabs on what they're up to at the moment (i.e. no restarting them or X > > to configure a remote desktop view). Can I do this? > > > > Looking at VNC it normally starts up a new X session, this is no good. > > Looking further into it I could put options into the X server so I could > > remote the :0 screen. But this does me no good, I'd have to stop the > > application I've got running for a reconfiguration. > > I don't think there is any way short of a hardware network KVM to > get a remote screen if you didn't set up the vnc module and password > before starting the X session you want to grab. Well, you can. Log in using SSH, then run: export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority export DISPLAY=:0 x0vncserver Then connect to that VNC server. In future, might want to set up vino: Desktop -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop Click on 'Allow other users to view your desktop Tim. */
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