Re: Taking control of a remote program

[Diego Zuccato <diego otello alma unibo it>]

James Drabb wrote:

> > I'd need to take control of a RUNNING app from another machine.
> > For example, when my mother "locks" my program, I'd like to ssh to
> > that machine (already possible) and then "mirror" on my machine what
> > she sees, so to "unlock" it in a couple of clicks instead of having to
> > phisically go to that machine for the same two clicks...
> > I think it's possible with VNC, but since it's lot of overhead I'd
> > like to know if there's some other way ...
> There is TightVNC, which is a little better/faster.  You can
I know. But it's still slow :-(
> also just connect to her X server.  Export your DISPLAY to
> point to her:
> export DISPLAY=mymoms-ip:0
That's not good. This way I can't take control of a RUNNING program,
just run a new one...

BYtE,
 Diego.