From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni7rt-0001ne-VW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0AE0E0828; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A6AE0828 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ni7rh-0005hi-SM for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:29 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:27 +0100 id 00011BB9.4B7D560B.000072C0 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:22 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31-tuxonice_k8; KDE/4.4.0; i686; ; ) References: <20100218141552.099016d9@mating-tux> In-Reply-To: <20100218141552.099016d9@mating-tux> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002181600.25444.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7445bf62-40e5-40f8-839c-c4666226312b X-Archives-Hash: 32cdb3f1b481d806e389aa477040ed8f Renat Golubchyk writes: > My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help > her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a > regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and > time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software would solve > this. A video conferencing or a VoIP feature would be a nice bonus, > too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since > writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with > keyboard and mouse. > > So, is there some easy-to-use Linux program? I have Linux desktops on > both ends (Ubuntu and Gentoo), so portability or OS-independence is not > a requirement. > > Do you have any other ideas? For the record, we have a 2 Mbit DSL line > on one end and a 6 Mbit on the other. Those are, of course, downstream > bandwidth rates. You could use Skype to replace your phone communication, if you don't mind its spookiness (I do). It also does video conferencing. If plain audio is enough, I'd use TeamSpeak. Some jabber client for text conversations would be fine. Also works for formulas, if you know some LaTeX... And then VNC (epecially TightVNC) to share your drawings on the tablet. For ultimate performance, you could install NX, which makes X forwarding amazingly fast. One party connects to the remote NX server and opens a KDE 3.5 session, which will work nearly as fast if it were opened locally. And the other connects via VNC to that KDE session, which is also very fast then because it runs locally, not over DSL. I do not know if other window managers than KDE 3.5 have the VNC sharing feature, I have not found it in KDE4. You might need some port forwarding if you both are NATed behind a router. Wonko