Sharing X Sessions

[Simos Xenitellis]

If you use either GNOME or KDE, you can use the stock VNC clients that
are provided.
In GNOME, it is Applications/Internet/Remote Desktop Viewer.

If your own computer ('server') runs GNOME, you can enable sharing at
System/Preferences/Remote Desktop
and you can configure for read-only access.

One issue to consider is to force low bandwidth access to the VNC server.
I think that the software will pick automatically the highest quality
settings (due to LAN),
which may degrade performance. If you can force lower quality, it will
appear better.

Simos

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Joel Feiner <jafeiner at gmail.com> wrote:
> You will probably want to use VNC.  VNC allows view-only sessions as
> well as regular sessions.  One option is to use just a plain old X for
> the instructor and run x11vnc on that session and have the students
> connect to that from their machines.  A good package to use is tightvnc.
>  You can download from their website, or perhaps your distribution has
> it in its package manager.
>
> drew einhorn wrote:
>> I want to be able to share an X-session with multiple users in a
>> training scenario with 10-15 students.
>> Only the instructor really needs the keyboard and mouse to work.
>> Although it would be nice if the
>> instructor could temporarily delegate keyboard and mouse control to a
>> student, it is not essential.
>>
>> I'd also be interested in knowing about other that scaled well to larger
>> class sizes or worked well
>> only with smaller class sizes.
>>
>> I've tried googling, but have not found the right words to search for.
>> Package names, etc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Drew Einhorn
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Drew Einhorn
>>
>>
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