eh sorry forgot to RTFM...
from the FAQ (
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q22):
Q22 Can I remote the normal X display of my workstation (display :0) in the same way as the Windows server does?
It is possible to add VNC support to a standard X server, but we have no plans to do so at the moment. We've been told that Jens Wagner has done this - see x0rfbserver. We tend to run all our X sessions as VNC sessions and only use the local X server to run the viewer. It's very fast when on the same machine as the server! If you feel that it's overkill to run two X servers on the same machine, you might consider Ganesh Varadarajan's svgalib- based viewer.