PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 23, Issue 66

[James crawford]

plug-discuss-request at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
> Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:37:37 -0700 From: "Nate 
> Plamondon" <nplamondon at gmail.com> Subject: VNC remote screen blanking 
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Message-ID: 
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I use my home computer 
> (running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) with gnome 2.16.1) frequently from 
> work and elsewhere via x11vnc 0.8.2. It works fine, although a bit 
> slow. I am, however, concerned about all my actions showing on-screen 
> at home. I would be much more comfortable with this solution if I was 
> able to keep my home screen blank and locked while interacting 
> remotely. All the advice I've been able to find points to using 
> another X session on the home machine, but I would very much like to 
> use my root console. Do any of you have a solution or suggestions on 
> where to look?
> -- Nate Plamondon nplamondon<spam>@[sucks]gmail.com -------------- 
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Not logging into root but you can setup an ssh server and use "putty" or 
another terminal emulator to access the command line, then for those 
actions that require root either use sudo or su to root.

James C.