[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-03-22, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/22/22 10:41 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? > > Xvnc > > As in run an Xvnc server as an X11 server / display. Point your > programs at that display / server. Then have a VNC client connect to > said VNC server.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread James Cloos
ah, yes. i completely forgot about xpra. probabably a better solution than spice. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread James Cloos
unfortunately running the single application over app-emulation/spice might be as good as it gets. even over a local 1gig lan link those bugs you described are annoying. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Taylor
Some clarifications. On 3/22/22 1:28 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: Xvnc I have looked at NoMachine (a.k.a. NX) in the past. But I've not tried it myself because my work client machine has a VNC client built in and doesn't have an NX client. As in run an Xvnc server as an X11 server / display. 

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/22/22 10:41 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? Xvnc As in run an Xvnc server as an X11 server / display. Point your programs at that display / server. Then have a VNC client connect to said VNC server. Using ssh -X or ssh -Y works fine for older

[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-03-22, Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? > [...] > I do not want a "remote desktop". I just want to run a single > application on a remote machine and have its window show up locally. It looks like xpra will do what I want:

[gentoo-user] Re: How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-03-22, Laurence Perkins wrote: >>Even something "lightweight" like atril is so slow it's barely usable. >> >>I do not want a "remote desktop". I just want to run a single >>application on a remote machine and have its window show up locally. >> >>Back in the day, I used to run X11 apps

RE: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Laurence Perkins
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Björn Gohla
I think what happened is that a lot of rendering was moved to the client side, in particular font rendering. There may be ways to disable toolkit features that can lighten the load a bit.

RE: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

2022-03-22 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Rich Freeman > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 5:21 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:03 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > > The TPM in most computers

[gentoo-user] How to run X11 apps remotely?

2022-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? Using ssh -X or ssh -Y works fine for older applications, but not for things that use "modern" toolkits. Modern tookit designers appear to have adopted a life mission to maximize the number of client-server round-trips required for even a trivial event