On Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 09:55:04 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > Is there a way of accessing an already running virtual console remotely?
>
> Not this time, but next time run the command under screen(1). That allows
> you to detach the job and re-attach to it later: very useful in exactly
> the circumstances you describe.
  You don't want to use screen, you want to use tscreen!
     http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/tscreen
   Ahem.
  For this situation it doesn't help, but you might have luck starting
 x11vnc over ssh with tunnelling to view your desktop.  Somehting like
    ssh -X user@home 
      ->  apt-get install x11vnc
      ->  x11vnc -many
   Then connect again with port forwarding to localhost to
  view your whole desktop via vnc.
      
Steve
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Try out tscreen - My fork of GNU Screen: