x11vnc and remote desktop access

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:11:32PM -0400, Bob - BLU wrote:
> On 05/29/07 11:34, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >Yes. It's a VNC server.
> >puzzled as to why you would think it was anything else.
> 
> Thank you, Dan.  Indeed it must ship vnc traffic to service the vnc client. 
> What I was trying to get away from was the "vnc-server" package.  I don't 
> like the need to run a daemon (service) on the server and that it likes to 
> keep a dedicated session alive.  The ability to install, and run a single 
> executable, only when needed, that will get me "console" access to a 
> customers machine is of great desire.

Ah. What you are looking for is, indeed, x11vnc. It works pretty
well for that. I've even used it in a three-way session for
teaching purposes.

-dsr-

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