Gabriel Sean Farrell on 7 Apr 2008 07:49:46 -0700 |
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 02:57:04PM -0400, JP Vossen 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. I hear you. I'm fine with the Gnome project's decision to develop for the Gnome environment, but as an Xfce user I sure do appreciate software that doesn't come with all that baggage. > 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?) I discovered x11vnc doing remote support for my mom in Utah. Great stuff. Either that or a shared Screen session are invaluable for showing her what I'm doing when I upgrade something or fix a config file or whatnot. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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