Remotely helping with X
Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan
jrunyan.lists at dms.nwcg.gov
Fri May 30 17:01:53 CDT 2003
Correction Below
On Friday 30 May 2003 11:50, Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan wrote:
> On Friday 30 May 2003 11:21, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > Frequently my wife calls from home for a little computer help. She's not
> > a geek, but is learning fast. It would be really convenient if I could
> > set something up that works like VNC on (shudder) Windows, where I could
> > actually see what she is doing and help out. Does VNC allow you to
> > attach remotely to an existing X server or does it create a completely
> > separate DISPLAY? What other solutions are there?
>
> The latest versions of KDE have a slightly customized version of KDE for
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->VNC
> just this purpose. They have coined it as desktop sharing. I suppose so
> the masses understand the concept with a MS like name. You can teach her
> how to start it up, and send you a token or password or something to
> connect.
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