My favourite remote X software/Method is
Submitted by GhostR on Mon 15 Dec 2008
| VNC flavour (aka Remote Frame Buffer) |
   27% | 669 votes |
| Remote X (forwarding over SSH or not) |
38% | 950 votes |
| NoMachine (NX) |
16% | 402 votes |
| Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) |
13% | 337 votes |
| Other opensource (please let us know) |
1% | 32 votes |
| Other Proprietary (please elaborate) |
1% | 37 votes |
| Total 2437 votes |
At home between my gigabit networked systems I use plain X over SSH. To look at my dad's system over ADSL I run VNC (x11vnc) over SSH. I also use VNC at work to Windows systems which don't do X.
At a LUG meeting I played with NX, but as there isn't an open source server in the standard Debian repositories I've not used it myself.
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"I am not a PC - I am a free man!"
Adam
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I tried FreeNX Server. Packages are provided in an Ubuntu PPA repository. It worked reasonably well, but the free client QtNX did not work with it and I had to use the client from NoMachine, which is licensed under the GPL, I believe.
Having some problems, I heard about x2go [1][2] which is similar to LTSP and also integrates the NX libraries.
This works out of the box (do not forget PostgreSQL server) and also has some nice features like sound support, etc. It also provides a Qt client, a CLI client and a GTK client, which is under development but supports already the most important features.
The best thing however is that it is developed under Debian (Lenny) and is provided by a repository.
deb http://x2go.obviously-nice.de/deb/ lenny main
[1] http://www.x2go.org/ (german)
[2] http://x2go.berlios.de/index-en.html
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One novel trick I picked up from a forum is to launch Xephyr, export DISPLAY to the Xephyr's display, ssh to a remote server then run a window manager or DE. I need to figure out a way to script that cleanly.
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Personally, I would not do this, but if this is what you like to do, I would be more than happy to write a script for you.
--Dewar
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Is not plain ssh good enough for you people?
Bah humbug.
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OK, I confess I've done it about twice in the last decade. My recollection is that ssh -X works quite well. One gotcha to look out for:
local$ ssh -X remote
remote$ iceweasel&
An iceweasel window will indeed open. But, by some flabergastingly exapsperating what-on-earth-were-they-thinking annoyance, it will actually be a process running on the *local* machine!!!! Result: "Yes, this bug definitely exists in iceweasel both versions X and Y"; err; no it doesn't.
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X on Windows (Xming/WinSSH), X on Solaris, X on BSD'ish, X on Linux - i do not need more...
...of course all with OpenSSH and any Xterm.
Life can be so easy.
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