----- Original Message ----- > From: "lee" <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> > > John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> writes: > > > lee writes: > >> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > >> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > > >> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > >> (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be avoided gnome > >> --- KDE only crashes in vncserver) on a VM running Debian. > > > > X11 is network-transparent. Support for remote sessions has been built > > in from day one. Just run an X server on the remote machine and > > configure it to connect to the VM instance. Use ssh unless the > > connection will be local. > > How would I generally configure a client to magically start all > applications on the server? Especially with a Mac or a thin client, > that seems difficult to do? > On a Linux system with no GUI running already, you can run:
X -query mylinuxserver On a Linux system with a GUI already running, you can run run: Xephyr :1 -query mylinuxserver XDMCP must be enabled on mylinuxserver for these to work (see your login manager's doc). Xephyr is provided by xserver-xephyr (on my Jessie system, at least). XDMCP is good for LANs, but not for WAN. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1821306645.2284845.1411402919889.javamail.zim...@ptd.net
