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LazaRuss

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Registered: 2013-07-13

Posts: 12

Share x11 session

Hello

Hi, I  have a headless server I would like to be able to view and controll the current x session of via my laptop. In the past I have successfully used freenx but I can see this has been removed from the repository and is no longer supported. I have also tried x11vnc in the past, cant remember if I got it working in the end or not. The headless server is running centos, for no other reason than my work uses it for thier servers and I thought I would familurise myself with the os. If you think I will be better of with the same os as the laptop (arch) then please let me know the reasons etc.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

sbmomeni

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Registered: 2013-07-26

Posts: 29

Re: Share x11 session

Instead of freenx, you can use SSH X forwarding with compression enabled.

ssh -XC username@serveraddress