On 19/08/2013 22:32, [email protected] wrote: >> X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was >> >designed for hardware and architectures that haven't existed for 20+ >> >years. Almost all factors that made X11 awesome in the 80s and 90s >> >simply are not there anymore. > X11 was still really awesome in 2002. When we used remote graphical logons to > different machines. > It also helped with performance of certain desktop applications. Running the > application on a different machine (with better CPU) then the machine I was > working at always made people wonder why the same application was performing > so badly on theirs ;) > > But these days. Having fast reliable performance locally is better. With a > decent RDP that can connect to an existing desktop without having to set it > up as shared from the beginning is more useful. Any ideas on that?
Agreed. I've gotten so used to all that local *GL* goodness that running almost any app (except maybe xterm) remotely is just so painful it makes me cry... I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left with just the best remote interface ever - ssh and bash. So I can afford to be smug :-) I don't know how to make your RDP problem easier - I treat that the same as allow/deny rules for ssh (or any other kind of access really) and just accept that sometimes I need to ask first for something to be allowed. again, I can afford to be smug here too as the only things I need to RDP to are terminals set up for that very purpose and VirtualBox VMs (that is one more check box at the create stage). -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
