Thelma
On 02/06/2017 08:55 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 02/06/2017 01:55 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 02/06/2017 08:53:19 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Are there any good replacement for "nx / nxclient" in Linux? >>> NX is long time gone from portage. I hope, I can still install them >>> from atic. >>> This was another reason I wasn't upgrading for a long time as I need >>> them to access remote boxes in GUI. >>> >> >> I have net-misc/x2goclient (and net-misc/x2goserver) installed. >> But I think, x2goserver has to be installed on the remote system. >> >> > > Yes, x2goserver needs to be installed on the remote system. But I do > believe you need something installed on the remote system to listen for > nx/vnc requests anyway. > > I switched to x2goserver/x2goclient maybe two years ago from > xvnc/tigervnc as it was getting to be a real chore to install again > xorg-x11 at the time. > > It has some benefits, one of them being it spawns a new session when you > log in, like Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Services on Windows - > meaning you don't attach to an existing user that's logged on. > > It also has some downsides. As in not all desktops are fully supported. > I had to switch to MATE on the server for reliability issues. KDE5 is > not supported, as an example. They do support other desktops besides > MATE, it's just the one I stuck with. It does, however, feel > back-asswards compared to KDE, as a primarily KDE-user. > > Dan Any experience, how do they compare speed-wise net-misc/remmina vs. x2goserver of GUI to remote PC over the internet? -- Thelma
