On 3/1/06, John Reese <jwreese0 at comcast.net> wrote:
> At work we have a large number of wall monitors streaming data to our
> production floor workers. What workers see is just an X session running
> from a Linux box in the next room.
>
> We have had a problem with these X sessions locking. We need a way to
> remotely capture and mirror the X sessions that users see on the wall
> monitor. VNC would not appear to be the way to do this; can this be done
> with the 'screen' command? I have used screen with xterm sessions -- has
> anyone used this to capture and entire X session?
>
> John Reese
>
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Screen is really only for manipulating terminal sessions.  Why do you
feel that VNC is not a viable option?  Seems like it's exactly what
you're looking for.

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Donovan Niesen