Viewing the Linux Console/Real X through VNC

The real X display of the workstation, can be viewed from remotely by running x11vnc on the machine which you want to view the real X display.vnc viewer can be used to view/control the remote workstation/server. 

Packages Required:

rpm –ivh x11vnc-*
rpm –ivh vncserver*

You need to install the above mentioned packages in Linux

Steps:

Steps to view real X display using VNC 

1.Login into the machine which you want to view real X display using telnet/rsh/ssh 
2.Run the command “vncserver” 
3.If already someone logged in the X session, Run the following command 
“x11vnc -auth (homedir of the user who logged to X session)/.Xauthority -display:0” 

Note: You must have read permission of the .Xauthority file of the user who logged the X session

4.If nobody logged into the X Session, Run the following command 
“x11vnc -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -display :0 

5.Run the vnc viewer and use “:0” to connect 

Viewing/Controlling real X display will help us on support calls while doing remote support. This is an easy way to interact with the user session in Linux