On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > I use the icaclient provided by Citrix to access my virtual desktop at work, > but have never tried to set up something similar at home. What opensource > software would I need for this? Is there a wiki somewhere to follow? >
There might be something newer, but something along the line of x2go is what you'd want. It just tunnels over ssh (with a built-in ssh client) and runs an X server on the remote host which the clients connect to (you can just launch xfce or whatever for your DM - I'd avoid anything with fancy 3D), and then it compresses the X11 protocol and does the presentation on your local workstation. The X server can provide immediate replies to clients on its side so that the effects of latency are greatly diminished. But, if you launch something like chromium be prepared to watch the screen paint since it uses client-side rendering. All you'll get is big blobs of images sent over the wire for that window. However, for anything rendered server-side you'll get a very interactive experience since the component on your workstation can do much of the rendering independently of the actual X11 server, which operates on a delay. -- Rich
