[plug] rfb - VNC for pre-existing displays

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Sat Sep 13 21:11:46 WST 2003


Ryan wrote:
> Just stumbled [1] upon this program.  I know ages ago people asking
> about connecting VNC to an existing X session.  Well that's what this
> does.
> 
> If you can login to your X workstation via SSH etc and issue: 
> 
> DISPLAY=:0 x0rfbserver
> 
> .. then you can then connect to it with any standard VNC viewer.
> 

And a really silly thing to do is run the server and client on the same 
local machine for testing ;p)

Brad (Not that I'd know or anything. Nearly as interesting as the old 
PAL visual feedback!)

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