January 23rd, 2005
I want to start a VNC session that will share the current desktop on a remote laptop, rather than start a new one. The x11vnc package makes that possible.
It seems like the remote laptop must be logged in for this to work.
On laptop:
$ x11vnc -display :0
On local machine:
$ ssh -L 3781:localhost:5901 laptop
in another terminal on local machine:
$ vncviewer localhost:3781