why do that ? you can setup native X sessions on :0 and then vnc into it remotely ... -mike On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Steve Freitag wrote:

How about VNC?

Your native X-Server is :0 The VNCserver is :1 The VNCviewer puts up a window on :0 with the contents of the VNCserver :1?

----- Original Message ----- From: "brad" <maitre@ccs.neu.edu> To: <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:07 PM Subject: [Wlug] X tricks

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Hi All, I was wondering if there is a way to create a window that would be a tunnel into another X server. For example if i'm running a server on :0 and on :1, i would like to have a window, which is connected to :0, that would show what is being displayed on :1.

This is similar to how vmware works. When you start vmware in window on :0 it will actually start another X server on :1 and display (in a window) the contents on :1.

Is this possible (other then with vmware)?

Thanks, --brad

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i dont know if i posted this or not ... http://forum.hexonet.com/ basically its a vnc server that allows you to interact with an existing X session remotely ... for you Gentoo peeps, you can find an ebuild here: http://www.gentoo.org/~vapier/portage/net-misc/rfb/ -mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "brad" <maitre@ccs.neu.edu> To: <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 00:27 Subject: Re: [Wlug] X tricks

I didn't even think about VNC. That might work, but i think i found something better. I just discovered Xnest.

Xnest -geometry 1280x972 -query :remoteXserver :1

This seems to do what i want. I'm only missing one thing. That is a true full screen mode. I haven't looked into it much, so it may have this cabability.

-brad

On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:39 pm, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

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KDE Desktop Sharing is a RFB (VNC) server that uses your existing X session:

http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:07:45PM -0400, brad wrote: maitre> I was wondering if there is a way to create a window that would be a tunnel maitre> into another X server. For example if i'm running a server on :0 and on :1, i maitre> would like to have a window, which is connected to :0, that would show what maitre> is being displayed on :1.

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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