Remote XWindow session

[Rajinder Yadav]

Hi Clifford, 

you're right most of the stuff on Linux can be done via command line. Right now maybe I am being a bit lazy? or don't trust my knowledge of Linux so it's nice to verify via a GUI system tool.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Fri, 4/24/09, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Remote XWindow session
> To: tlug-BEuBXOPWo2E at public.gmane.orgg
> Received: Friday, April 24, 2009, 2:09 PM
> On 24/04/09 09:24 AM, Marc Lanctot
> wrote:
> > On 22/04/09 10:09 PM, James Knott wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> > 
> > Rajinder,
> > 
> > By the sounds of your message you probably want
> [snip]
> 
> FreeNX :)
> 
> > If you want to do that from a Windows box you'll have
> to
> > install an implementation of
> 
> the NX client available as a binary
> 
> > on Windows which you can find
> 
> at <http://nomachine.com>. On second thought, try ssh
> and X forwarding
> first and then try the FreeNX and NX Client method. You'll
> see a marked
> difference in performance. I find remote X is unusable over
> the
> Internet, even on a broadband connection. FreeNX makes it
> tolerable.
> 
> I have to ask, however, why do you need this at all for
> managing a
> remote server? Linux is easy to manage using nothing more
> than a shell
> and a text editor. There are some server applications that
> require a
> GUI, even if it's a virtual frame buffer, but fortunately,
> those are not
> common. What is your use case?
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Clifford Ilkay
> Dinamis
> 1419-3266 Yonge St.
> Toronto, ON
> Canada  M4N 3P6
> 
> <http://dinamis.com>
> +1 416-410-3326
> 


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