<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 1/30/2010 20:29, Neil Salstrom wrote:<br>
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I've been using VNC but starting a new X server sounds interesting.<br>
Is this something along the lines of X over ssh? Could you give a<br>
brief tutorial?<br>
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VNC's normal behavior is to run its own independent Xserver. This strange behavior of hooking into an existing server is something only available in RealVNC4.<div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Not ture. x11vnc allows you to connect to an existing X session. It's extremely useful for controlling a frontend remotely.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>