seth vidal said: > Interesting question for the list: > > I've got two laptops. One I use to do work, the other one is older and > sits as a fileserver/music server/misc test machine. > > I'd like to be able to login to the older one on the desktop, start up > something like vnc and allow controlling connections from gnome. > > So I'd like for vncserver under linux to act like it does under Windows > or OSX. This is answered in the VNC FAQ: Can I remote the normal X:0 display of my Unix workstation? http://www.realvnc.com/faq.html#x0 Q22 Can I remote the normal X display of my workstation (display :0) in the same way as the Windows server does? http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q22 -- William Hooper