On 02/13/2015 04:45 PM, Jonathan Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:27 PM, John Mort <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, I hung onto NX 3.5 for as long as I could, but not understanding the
>> security implications of using unsupported software, I'm looking for
>> alternatives. NX 4 put the virtual desktops behind a paywall, which means
>> that using NX to connect to another machine now limits you to the screen
>> resolution the machine you're connecting to can physically support.
>>
>
> i just started using x2go last week. So far it's been very stable and
> is still getting active development.
>
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php
>
>
>> Are there any other programs out there that do remote desktop connections
>> and let you set the screen resolution to higher levels that are supported on
>> the client side that might not necessarily work on the physical server
>> you're connecting to?
>>
>
> x2go will certainly do this; I have it configured that way now.
> Setting it up only required spec'ing on the client side what
> resolution to ask for.
Nice, x2go is definitely something I didn't know existed, and seems to
be working a bunch better than the beleaguered NX installs I had.
-Sean
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