[X2Go-User] Newbie question: What is x2go's relationship to VcXsrv?

2015-05-11 Thread David Aldrich
Hi

I use VcXsrv and have just come across x2go.

Please will someone explain if there is any relationship between x2go and 
VcXsrv?

Why might I want to use x2go instead of VcXsrv?

(I work on a Windows 8.1 machine and want to access GUI apps on Linux machines).

Best regards

David

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Re: [X2Go-User] Newbie question: What is x2go's relationship to VcXsrv?

2015-05-11 Thread Stefan Baur
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Am 11.05.2015 um 10:56 schrieb David Aldrich:

 I use VcXsrv and have just come across x2go.

 Please will someone explain if there is any relationship between
 x2go and VcXsrv?

Plain VcXsrv is just that - a plain X server for Windows, that you can
use with any SSH client that supports X forwarding, no change on the
Unix machine required.

For X2Go, you need to install the X2Go server packages on your Unix
(currently: only Linux) machine, else you will be unable to connect to
it using X2GoClient.

X2GoClient for Windows ships with a patched/forked version of VcXsrv,
kindly maintained by Mike DePaulo, informally known on this list as
Mike#2.


 Why might I want to use x2go instead of VcXsrv?

For learning about the advantages of X2Go, I would like to suggest you
visit our Wiki page for beginners:
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:newtox2go


Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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Re: [X2Go-User] Newbie question: What is x2go's relationship to VcXsrv?

2015-05-11 Thread David Aldrich
Thanks for your explanations. 

Best regards

David

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 Am 11.05.2015 um 10:56 schrieb David Aldrich:
 
  I use VcXsrv and have just come across x2go.
 
  Please will someone explain if there is any relationship between x2go
  and VcXsrv?
 
 Plain VcXsrv is just that - a plain X server for Windows, that you can use 
 with
 any SSH client that supports X forwarding, no change on the Unix machine
 required.
 
 For X2Go, you need to install the X2Go server packages on your Unix
 (currently: only Linux) machine, else you will be unable to connect to it 
 using
 X2GoClient.
 
 X2GoClient for Windows ships with a patched/forked version of VcXsrv,
 kindly maintained by Mike DePaulo, informally known on this list as Mike#2.
 
 
  Why might I want to use x2go instead of VcXsrv?
 
 For learning about the advantages of X2Go, I would like to suggest you visit
 our Wiki page for beginners:
 http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:newtox2go
 
 
 Kind Regards,
 Stefan Baur
 
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Re: [X2Go-User] Newbie question: What is x2go's relationship to VcXsrv?

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Gabriel

Hi David,

On  Mo 11 Mai 2015 10:56:35 CEST, David Aldrich wrote:


Hi

I use VcXsrv and have just come across x2go.

Please will someone explain if there is any relationship between  
x2go and VcXsrv?


Why might I want to use x2go instead of VcXsrv?

(I work on a Windows 8.1 machine and want to access GUI apps on  
Linux machines).


Best regards

David


X2Go uses NX technology which requires an XServer on the client-side host.

In X2Go the setup is this:

  o (Windows) client-side: VcXsrv
  o client-side: nxproxy
  o server-side: nxagent (aka x2goagent) (Xserver where the X2Go session
runs in).

X2Go Client bundles VcXsrv and ships it in its installer. As we  
experienced long delays with security fixes in the upstream VcXsrv the  
X2Go project's and the Arctica Project's (working on a remote desktop  
solution write-up from scratch) team chose to maintain its own  
branch/version of VcXsrv [1].


You can use VcXsrv to run local X11 and remote X11 application via the  
normal X11 protocol. X2Go utilizes NX technology, which is used for  
starting remote X11 application, but the NX protocol does several  
things for optimizing the application's smoothness when it comes to  
low bandwidth connections.


Mike

[1] https://github.com/ArcticaProject/vcxsrv
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