On 11/3/23 7:59 AM, Brielle Tilson wrote:
What do you mean “screen does this only for command line not graphical desktop”. I thought the idea of screen was that I can see the screen of my computer at school. Isn’t screen a GUI?
Screen is like a "DOS program" that runs in a shell and allows running shell style programs and then detaching from them to let them keep running in the background. As an example, I use screen to run a Left4Dead dedicated server. Normally it runs in the foreground only. So - the user on the linux system running it all the time starts up and auto-launches it as the game admin user into a screen session. If I need to interact with it the session (from Telnet/ssh or local/remote gui), I use "screen -r l4d2" to attach to the session from a bash shell. You probably want something more like RealVNC for remote graphical networking. And as a home user, there's a 2-3 seat free license you can sign up for. Then you'd have to have someone install it on the computer at school (if it's used by many users, that might be hard) and apply one of the seat licenses. But look at RealVNC to get an idea of what it is. Cheers, -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: ben AT benkamen DOT net http://www.benkamen.net Cell: 224.619.9006 http://www.linkedin.com/in/benkamen - - NOTICE: All legal disclaimers sent to benkamen.net or any of its affiliated domains are rendered null and void on receipt of communications and will be handled/considered as such.
