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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx