Remote desktop vs. remote display [LWN.net]

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 15, 2013 17:15 UTC (Fri) by lyda (subscriber, #7429)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by khim
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

I use screen in my terminal windows. I have no trouble getting access to those.

The main graphical app I use is my web browser. I use Chrome. I click "new tab" and click "other devices" in the lower right hand part of the screen. Shows me everything I have open everywhere - desktops, phones, tablets.

I can access everything on my desktop remotely with little fuss even I have minimal bandwidth.

As for running other gui apps remotely, I just ssh -X to whatever machine I want (including ones without any desktop) and run the app I want.

I've used X11 desktops since 1990 and never really used Windows. The few times I did I found any remote solutions painful and slow even when they were nearby. Worse even than ssh-tunneled trans-Atlantic X11 apps.

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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 18, 2013 5:45 UTC (Mon) by tnoo (subscriber, #20427) [Link]

Exactly my experience.