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Achieving tunneled X applications is not hard, as you said it's a solved problem, but I have never found it worth the effort either. 1. VNC has a "stable sessi
by Steltek 5y ago
Achieving tunneled X applications is not hard, as you said it's a solved problem, but I have never found it worth the effort either.
1. VNC has a "stable session" that doesn't collapse when SSH closes. Even between Linux machines, I chose VNC when needing a permanent remote GUI.
2. Remote machines don't always have your preferred applications or the associated preferred configuration. Copying a light .vimrc was always easier than trying to export-import a heavier app.
3. Performance always sucked. Even between machines sitting next to each other.
4. I didn't edit files with a GUI app anyway. Didn't everyone just use Vim, Emacs, or Nano? Was remote GUI apps ever anyone's preferred method (X11 or not)?
- ChuckMcM 5y ago4.) I typically just spawn a few xterms (edit, build/debug (typically using screen), and i/o). 3.) No, performance has been fine using X11 apps that were built with X11 in mind (vs Wayland or some sort of locally accelerated GPU helper(do you really need 25% transparent dialog boxes?)) 2.) There is remote machine I own/control (it has all the things I need) and going into a system that someone else has asked me to develop on (then ANSI terminal tools over SSL are always working) 1.) VNC has always been hit or miss for me, I do typically use screen(1) to keep sessions alive if for some reason the network dies in the middle. But all fine points.