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We have got a big screen in our office connected to an old PC, whose only purpose is to display information generated by software such as Munin, Nagios, etc. It is running Debian with Xfce to be able to run on that machine. Still it is a XServer!

What I would like to do, is to connect any machine (Linux, macOS, but maybe also Windows) remotely to that XServer and mirror the clients screen (so not ssh -X!!!). So anyone can share a view on his screen with the others in the room.

Giacomo1968
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mlaug
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I think VNC would probably do the trick. Here's a post that seems relevant:

http://www.debianadmin.com/remote-desktop-sharing-in-ubuntu.html

Dobes Vandermeer
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There are tools to grab your X Desktop as an MPEG stream--you could then stream it to the server with VLC. I'm sure that's not as seamless as you'd like... but it might meet your core requirements. And with some scripting, maybe it could be made more seamless.

Flimzy
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Why is VNC'ing into the orignator's screen not an option?

You want to avoid the X-forwarding option over SSH, but it would seem like remoting into the "mirroring" server, initiating an ssh -X to the "originating" device, and then VNC'ing into the mirroring server would work.

warren
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