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Remote X has been a godsend for me. I'm not always able to lug around a worthy machine, so being able to use lesser hardware as a 'thinclient' to my wireguard'd
by aliqot 4y ago
Remote X has been a godsend for me. I'm not always able to lug around a worthy machine, so being able to use lesser hardware as a 'thinclient' to my wireguard'd assets is very handy. Obviously I'm not going to expect high definition video or realtime gaming, but that's not what it's billed as either, so within the scope of what it's for I'm wholly satisfied.
People on both sides sound somewhat fanatic, and I've never understood that. I just want to use what serves me best with the fewest interruptions.
I ran wayland for 3 years in various forms, and could not reconcile the bumps and stumbles in the process. Maybe next year I'll give it a shot again. There has to be something that it's doing for everyone for me to be hearing this much about it still.
- jacob019 4y agoxrdp is so much more comfortable to use than X forwarding. A PITA to set up though. VNC is a sensible choice too.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI'm so glad modern GNOME has xrdp support built in. It's just a toggle in the settings. My previous attempts to make it work have ruined the standard configuration so I'll probably need to do some serious purging/reinstalling to get it to work, but for new installs I'm sure remoting into GNOME must be a LOT easier.
- aidenn0 4y agoIs it more of a pain to setup then just running freerdp-shadow-cli?
- jacob019 4y agoI use xrdp for headless remote sessions, and vnc for remote access to live sessions. I'll give freerdp-shadow-cli a try, thanks!
- jacob019 4y agoTried freerdp-shadow-cli, didn't work very well. Vinagre RDP client was unable to authenticate at all and just showed a black screen. I only knew that it was an authentication issue due to the server log. FreeRDP client didn't work with my multimonitor setup, it only showed the secondary screen. It doesn't scale the display properly either. The client must be set to the same resolution as the host. I'll be sticking with VNC for screen sharing, and continue using RDP for headless sessions.
- fsckboy 4y agocan xrdp or vnc display individual remote windows on my local desktop side by side with local windows? I don't want to import an entire remote desktop. That's what I've always used X for, with seamless mouse X select and middle button paste. > more comfortable to use than X forwarding. A PITA to set up though. X port forwarding is painless, not sure what aspect you're referring to?
- jacob019 4y agoYes, it is possible to display individual windows with rdp. X forwarding works ok with a fast LAN, it's very slow to draw over a slower link. SSH compression can help a little. If it works well for you then that's awesome, keep using it.