On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Is there a utility that will allow you to take control of the current Linux > desktop from a remote machine? This is the way VNC works in windows. Open > VNC on a remote machine and you see the exact same thing you see on the local > monitor, including any running programs. Under Linux, however, VNC (at least > the versions I've tried) opens up a new desktop which is separate from the > currently running desktop. This is a neat and useful tool, but it's not what > I need. Are there, perhaps, any VNC app which offers this feature under > Linux? Or some other way to do it? If it all possible, it needs to be OS > independent (take control of a Linux server frrom a client running on Windows > and vice versa.)
In Gnome, it's called Vino. This option is also available in VNC 4.0 IIRC. (but Vino surely does it) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:37:10 up 1 day, 8:39, 4 users, load average: 1.16, 0.80, 1.81 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
