actually, I'm now using a package called X11 VNC server. it seems to work much better than KRFB. I'm writing this e-mail using voice dictation with Dragon nine. It works quite well. The headphones are connected to a Windows machine which then use VNC to connect Linux where I am composing the e-mail using Gmail. No, I said K mail. Apparently the software has a preference for Google products, or at least we know something about the training database they used for their artificial intelligence. The nice part about this configuration is that I can still use the keyboard on the Linux machine while I speak. The only annoyance, is that when I want to use punctuation, such as, I have to literally say the word, period no, I didn't say, period I said, period. Dammit. I can't have a meta-discussion about punctuation, apparently. Jeremy Wednesday 19 September 2007 7:41:24 pm Dave Carlson wrote: > > I want to access my existing session on desktop :0, so that I > > can work with my running apps. > > You want to run 'x0vncserver' (if it doesn't exist, you need to install a > vnc server package). It works but it's got its caveats - it is a bit slow > and a resource hog. > > There is a GNOME utility called vino-server - it does work great for KDE > also. It is a fairly recent tool. > > In Fedora (7) I just logged into KDE, ran vino-preferences and then > /usr/libexec/vino-server and it worked great. If KDE is configured to > launch that /usr/libexec/vino-server at login it will be automatic. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net>