helping a new Ubuntu user

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 11/13/08, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:

> From: norman <norman at littletank.org>
> Subject: helping a new Ubuntu user
> To: "ubuntu-users" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 11:34 AM
> My brother is in the process of converting from Windows to
> Ubuntu and is
> quite computerate. However, I am expected to be the fount
> of all
> knowledge about Ubuntu whereas I am really pretty ignorant.
> The
> difficulty is that we are several hundred kilometres apart
> and sometimes
> it is quite difficult to visualise what he is seeing on his
> monitor from
> his descriptions. It would be most useful if I were able to
> see his
> monitor screen and I wondered if this were possible for a
> relative
> rookie like me.
> 
> There must be lots of you who have had similar problems and
> I would
> welcome any useful advice you can pass to me. Who knows, if
> I am
> successful in converting my brother to Ubuntu others in the
> family may
> follow.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
Norman, I'm no expert either but I think you can do what you want with "ksnapshot" installed on your brother's computer. I use kde4 desktop but it should work for the gnome desktop once installed.  HTH,

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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