On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 scott.w.fischer at att.net wrote:
> I'm looking for the GUI equivalent to the "screen" command.
>
> We have a compute/network intensive application in our NOC somewhat
> like HP Openview.  We don't like to start it up everytime a shift
> change happens due to the auto-discovery network load that gets
> generated.  So currently one person logs in and never logs out and
> everyone else uses that persons account on that box.
>
> Is there a detachable/attachable X-windows server that works in the
> same fashion as "screen" does for ttys?
>
> I would like to have each of the NOC staff members log into that
> station as themselves and then just be able to attach the GUI server
> to their local X-windows session.

You could use vnc..

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