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Re: [PLUG] great tool: x11vnc
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Yeah, I used to use x11vnc Back In The Day (tm), before I had
completely dropped the windows mindset and started using a server for
my important stuff (ie torrents, irc, im, etc). Since my family and
relatives haven't dropped Windows yet, I haven't used it for remote
help. Here's a how-to on how to use it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45565
Probably a bit dated by now, but still gives the gist.
Joe Terranova
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:57 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> I've been testing Xubuntu Hardy beta, but one of my killer apps is
> trivial "remote desktop." As many of you probably know, that's built-in
> to the Gnome Ubuntu as (wait for it) "System, Preferences, Remote
> Desktop". But vino is a Gnome app, which a) doesn't work under Xfce and
> b) would kind of defeat the purpose of running Xfce if it did work and
> had to load all the Gnome libs anyway.
>
> There are a lot of really hairy gazillion-step HOWTOs out there when you
> Google for xfce remote desktop, but there are some problems with them.
> First, while I'm capable of implementing them, I don't feel like it. I
> use Ubuntu because I want it to Just Work without messing around with
> it. If I wanted to do that kind of thing I'd be using Gentoo. Second,
> most of the "solutions" I found don't actually give you the current,
> console session (:0), they give you a new X session (:1 +). The
> *entire* point of this is to get the existing console desktop, for
> remote control or t-shooting. I finally grew a brain and went down the
> output from "aptitude search vnc" line by line, doing an "aptitude show
> <package>" for likely looking ones.
>
> Enter x11vnc [1], which I'd not known about. Not only does it do
> *exactly* what I wanted on Xubuntu, not only does it mostly Just Work,
> but it has a 4K+ line man page with an amazing number of options clearly
> spelled out, in depth, with examples. I'm really impressed with this
> package. (Can you tell?)
>
> The only thing it doesn't do is add a menu item, which is not going to
> be an issue for the folks on this list. Especially check out the
> -timeout 300 -unixpw -gui options. For anyone who has to do remote
> support of X desktops, you might even consider this over vino. I say
> that because you can set it up to be extra secure by creating a menu
> item that the user must execute for the remote person to be able access
> the machine, you can have it timeout and go away, and it has all kinds
> of different passwd/authentication support. That's as opposed to the
> vino/Gnome setup where it's on or off as a daemon (more or less), with a
> static passwd. Of course, you can also tunnel it over SSH, stunnel or
> SSL (see the man page).
>
> See also:
> Bug #56670, first reported on 2006-08-17 by Caroline Ford
> Xubuntu needs a VNC server like vino is to Gnome
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-meta/+bug/56670
>
> Bug #212704, first reported 10 hours ago by JP Vossen
> x11vnc should create a menu item
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvncserver/+bug/212704
>
> Check it out,
> JP
>
> [1] $ aptitude show x11vnc
> Package: x11vnc
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: yes
> Version: 0.9.3.dfsg.1-1ubuntu1
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/x11
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Uncompressed Size: 1593k
> Depends: libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.13), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.10),
> libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libjpeg62, libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8e-1), libvncserver0,
> libx11-6, libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1),
> libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxtst6, zlib1g (>=
> 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
> Description: VNC server to allow remote access to an existing X session
>
> x11vnc allows one to view remotely and interact with real X displays
> (i.e. a display corresponding to a physical monitor, keyboard, and
> mouse) with any VNC viewer. It has built-in SSL encryption and
> authentication, UNIX account and password support, server-side scaling,
> single port HTTPS and VNC, mDNS service advertising, and TightVNC and
> ultraVNC file-transfer.
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