control of desktop from laptop

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Thu Aug 1 10:05:21 MST 2013


 From a console run:

apt-cache show x11vnc

All will be revealed.

Brian Cluff

On 08/01/2013 06:24 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> what is x11vnc?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:30 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at kitepilot.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think that he is talking about something like x11vnc.
>     ET
>
>
>     Paul Mooring writes:
>
>         There's some software called synergy for this, I use it to
>         control a windows desktop from the mouse/keyboard on my Mac, but
>         it has Linux support too
>         Paul Mooring
>         Operations Engineer
>         Opscode, Inc.
>         On Jul 28, 2013, at 2:59 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             That question may be of interest to the few readers of this
>             list that haven't blocked me yet. :) Is there  a way to make
>             it so you can control another computer (one connected to a
>             television) from another (a laptop). This includes the
>             mouse. And then how would you make it so the tv is used as
>             your monitor from the laptop w/o a vga cable. I figure this
>             is possible because I can control xbmc with a remote control
>             from the laptop.
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