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Thin clients are back on the menu. I wanted to transition to this development model a year ago, but unfortunately X11 forwarding was slow on mobile connections
by mhitza 5y ago
Thin clients are back on the menu.
I wanted to transition to this development model a year ago, but unfortunately X11 forwarding was slow on mobile connections, and as far as I'm aware (if you know a workaround let me know), on Linux, RDP can't be made to just share a single app, only full desktop sessions.
- sz4kerto 5y agoWe experimented with X forwarding, but it worked well only on e.g. local networks. Some people still ended up using X forwarding, but JB Gateway or VSC Remote is in a different league. We have also tried Jetbrains Projector, which is basically a different rendering engine for Java Swing. A remote IDEA instance was rendering the UI through HTML, i.e. you could develop in a browser. It worked relatively well, but there were some issues around copy/paste, etc.
- rerx 5y ago> It worked relatively well, but there were some issues around copy/paste, etc. They have an electron-based client that improves on some of these issues that stem from running inside a browser: https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/ij_user_guide/accessing/#client-app-launcher https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/i...
- beecafe 5y agoTry Xpra, it's like X11 forwarding but much snappier.
- Yeroc 5y agoThe only thing I've found to be half-ways usable is x2go. With it you can have a rootless window session. I still end up using VS Code Remote development tools a lot though.