Remote XWindow session

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 23 02:09:59 UTC 2009


Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> Is it possible to set up a remote xwindow session? What I want to do is
> connect to a remote Linux box that has no video card, but I still want 
> to be able to run a local KDE session controlling the remote Linux box 
> in a rich GUI environment.
>
> Is this possible, and is this easy to setup?
>
>   

Yes, that's one of the things Linux & Unix have done for years, with X. 
You can run a full desktop, using XDMCP or just individual apps, with
SSH and X forwading.  There's also stuff like VNC etc.

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