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. Point your programs at that display / server. Then have a VNC client connect to said VNC server.
There's another option in the VNC / NX arena, but the name escapes me at the moment.
There is also the possibility of RDP and / or ICA (whatever name old Citrix technology is going by these days).
If you're into retro computing, PC Anywhere / Timbuktu are options.
I run programs like this on the daily. E.g. Lotus Notes 9.x running on an old CentOS 6.x VM (last supported version) displaying on contemporary Gentoo on my workstation. The latency is noticeable if you know what to look for. But the latency is also quite tolerable.
To be crystal clear, my Gentoo physical machine SSHs to my CentOS virtual machine with X11 forwarding such that the Notes client shows up on my Gentoo system. It's about as stock X11 as you can get. -- I have contemplated messing with xhost / xauth (cookies) to avoid the encryption / decryption overhead. But I found that I still needed remote command execution to set the DISPLAY and launch the Notes client. SSH makes this latter part trivial while also providing the former part. This is across a switched 1 Gbps LAN in the same subnet.
This works well enough that I'm considering evaluating running more programs on discrete systems / VMs / containers with X11 networking.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
