29 Jan 2014

Tunnel VNC of Real X Display Through SSH

Assuming the server is using the LightDM display manager and no users are logged in:

Run from server:

sudo /usr/bin/x11vnc -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -display :0

Run from client:

ssh -f -L 5900:localhost:5900 SERVERHOSTNAME -N -p 22
vinagre 127.0.0.1:5900