Re: [tlug] Accessing a program running on a different computer

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On 2011-01-30 at 22:49:54, Raymond Wan wrote:
>Suppose you're on Machine A and you are accessing Machine B
>remotely.  You start Process X running on Machine B.  If X
>is a GUI-based program (for example firefox), I don't
>believe there is a way to see it from Machine A.

I have to do that moderately often. Here's what to do from the SSH 
session:

    (x11vnc -display :0 -localhost -usepw &)
    sleep 1
    xtightvncviewer -passwd ~/.vnc/passwd localhost:0

Those are part of a larger shell script i have which lets me do all 
sorts of VNC stuff. To use just those lines as they are, you'll have to 
set up a password file--see vncpasswd(1).

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