On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 12:27:04AM -0400, brad wrote: maitre> I didn't even think about VNC. That might work, but i think i found something maitre> better. I just discovered Xnest. maitre> maitre> Xnest -geometry 1280x972 -query :remoteXserver :1 maitre> maitre> This seems to do what i want. I'm only missing one thing. That is a true full maitre> screen mode. I haven't looked into it much, so it may have this cabability.
Oh, I misunderstood what you wanted. I thought you wanted to share an X session between two computers (which you can use x0rfbserver for). What Actually you were correct. I did want to interact with an existing session. I
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 08:46 am, Charles R. Anderson wrote: tried to get RFB to work a few times, but was unsuccessful. Xnest does pretty much what i'm look for. Except i can't connect to an existing session and i can't make it full screen it will.
you want is very easy. Just use the regular X server, not Xnest, and start it on a different VT than normal:
X -geometry 1280x1024 -query removteXserver :1 vt8
Then you can switch using ctrl-alt-f7 and ctrl-alt-f8. This is actually what i have been doning, but i'm getting tired of hiting ctl-atl-f8 and waiting for the monitor to change modes. This is why i was looking for something that could tunnel into an existing X session (on another VT) and display its contents within a window.
Thanks, --brad