Hugo van der Kooij ()
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:26:40 +0200 (MET DST)
> I'm still a bit jealous that Win95 users get to access their desktops
> without making any changes, but we Unix users have to setup a new
> desktop to be shared. While this is great when moving from station to
> station, running Xvnc and vncviewer on the same machine instead of
> just (in my case) Xfree86 has its problems.
>
> So my first thought was to take on the task of merging the Xvnc
> sources with Xfree86, so that my current X server would also act as a
> vnc server. But I don't know anything about the X sources, and so I
> don't have the time I would need to do this.
>
> So my second thought is this: Is an X program like the unix "tee," but
> bidiretional, feasable? That is, how hard would it be to make a dummy
> X server that just multiplexes two other X servers, sending all the
> I/O from one to the other and vice versa. Then it would be possible
> to run XFree86 and Xvnc on the same desktop. Would this work? Is it
> hard?
Chech the archive for comp.os.linux.announce as I have seen something
similar pass by some time ago.
Hugo.
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