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Transfer PHYSICAL display on VNC protocol

ps auxw | grep Xorg
# you'll see something like
#    Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority -background none -noreset -keeptty -verbose 3
# check the -auth value
export XAUTHFILE=/run/user/1000/gdm/Xauthority

x11vnc -display :0 -auth "$XAUTHFILE" -noxdamage -forever

# it may be effective for size down data rate, using anamorphic technic.
x11vnc -display :0 -auth "$XAUTHFILE" -noxdamage -forever -scale 0.7x1
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