That's possibly true. The machine I connect in to normally uses dwm, but I've never got that working. I tend to install and use LXDE for remote sessions. That seems to work fine.
On 20 April 2015 at 14:22, TimA <t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Hi John > > On 20/04/15 13:14, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > >> Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other >> than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing >> about >> RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing >> primitives and instructions instead of just updating rectangles of pixels, >> which is very efficient. It has several levels of protocol though, and the >> lowest is pretty much VNC (remote framebuffer). The smarter versions of >> the >> protocol have never been implemented on Linux and so the RDP server just >> wraps VNC and tells the client to fall back to the lowest protocol level. >> >> That's very interesting. I'd noted that xrdp relied on VNC for the > backend and that had pushed it back to "must try this one day" status. The > only test I'd run in the past was RDP client to Windows XP, and your > description explains the impressive speed. > > I agree that remote X11 is very useful but I've always found that it works >> best for simple (dare I say old fashioned?) X11 apps like xterm and worst >> for graphically complex things like browsers. It's just about usable over >> a >> good WAN connection for simple jobs but seems to be very sensitive to >> latency, and the effect is multiplied for complex applications. >> >> One tool that I've found to work very well is x2go. I'm not sure if it's >> available for the Pi but I've used it quite a lot on desktop machines. >> There's a Windows client which works well too. >> >> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php >> >> It's not faultless. Not all features seem to work perfectly, but it's >> pretty good. >> >> > I see that uses NX - will definitely be giving it a try. But it looks like > nxagent needs a major rewrite to stay compatible with modern desktops. > > > Cheers > > Tim > > > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-05-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING > Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-05-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
