[mythtv-users] strange question: using keyboard over ssh in mythtv

Tim Phipps mythtv-users at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Oct 11 11:35:47 UTC 2007


Ma Begaj wrote:
> I would like to be able to connect over ssh and to send keystrokes
> from my notebook to a running mythfrontend.
> 
> Is there a way to do that? I know I could use X11forwarding, but that
> would start one more mythfrontend session etc.

VNC is what you need, ssh into the frontend from your laptop and run
x11vnc ("DISPLAY=:0 x11vnc -xrandr" is what I use), then run a vncviewer
  on your laptop (I recommend www.realvnc.com for a download).

Cheers,
Tim.


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