[Lancaster] remote desktop / xdmcp problem

[Wayne Ward]

hi andy hows the performance of the new small factor box you bought?..
have you thought of how you are going to setup the test web server yet
IE chroot or in a virtual machine ...

Wayne

andy baxter wrote:
> Thanks! I hadn't thought of using vnc. It turns out there's a program
> called x11vnc which grabs the current X11 display and turns it into a
> vnc server session.
>
> It's working great - I'm now playing a film on the mini-itx box with the
> keyboard and mouse controlled by my laptop.
>
> Cheers,
>
> andy
>
> John Scott wrote:
>   
>> Try VNC...If I remember correctly, it grabs the current X session and
>> displays it locally.
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> [mailto:lancaster-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of andy baxter
>> Sent: 14 August 2009 01:23
>> To: Lancaster Linux User Group
>> Subject: [Lancaster] remote desktop / xdmcp problem
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have two machines, a laptop and a mini-itx box. I want to be able to 
>> run an X session on the mini-itx box and have it displayed on both 
>> machines at the same time. This is different from the standard xdmcp 
>> remote desktop situation where you want a different session on the 
>> client to the mini-itx box - what I want is to have the keyboard and 
>> mouse from the laptop controlling the session, but to have the same 
>> session displayed through the video card on the mini-itx.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do this? I already have standard xdmcp logins 
>> working.
>>
>> (The original problem was to find a simple way of playing videos and 
>> music on the mini-itx box without having to have a keyboard and mouse 
>> permanently attached to it.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> andy
>>
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