Hello Ramon, I use RealVNC on daily basis and find it faster than TightVNC. NX is the only choice for native X terminal with sessions. xrdp is old and unmaintained, it implements RDP4 and not very usable.
Good news for us is that RDP for Linux is developed in great new project FreeRDP. Try server component of it. The latest requires TLS connection from rdp client, so you can use mstsc.exe or xfreerdp. Compile sources from github. ;) Gregory On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 11:23 +0100, Anton Xuereb wrote: > (and it's security) :P > > On 9 December 2011 11:16, Ramon Casha <[email protected]> > wrote: > My problem with VNC is its performance over a network - at > least compared to both NX and RDP. > Ramon Casha > > > > On 9 December 2011 10:59, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti > <[email protected]> wrote: > I had tried it a while ago. It doesn't do redirection. > Just display. > From a licensing point of view, an implementation of > an RDP server is a shady business. > > > I would also consider VNC if this is for a commercial > offering. > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Ramon Casha > <[email protected]> wrote: > NX is pretty expensive though. Have you tried > every xrdp over the internet? > > Ramon Casha > > > > On 9 December 2011 10:41, Raphael Borg Ellul > Vincenti <[email protected]> wrote: > Then you should go for the real deal > aka NoMachine NX. > Another possibility is using straight > X over ssh if you are working over a > lan. The only drawback is > disconnections and redirection of > sound, files and printing. > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Ramon > Casha <[email protected]> > wrote: > Well the problem with freenx / > neatx is precisely that - they > are unmaintained. I don't want > to go for an unmaintained > project. > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > On 9 December 2011 10:19, > Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti > <[email protected]> wrote: > 2X had a terminal > server which is based > off NoMachine. > It might be oldish and > unmaintained as they > dropped the project. > > > > http://www.2x.com/downloads/#termserver > > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at > 10:09 AM, Ramon Casha > <[email protected]> > wrote: > Damn, I just > found the > catch with > NX... The > "free server" > available from > nomachine is > actually a > stripped-down > version that > is limited to > 2 sessions, > and it seems > that FreeNX > and NeatX are > both dead. Is > there a > decent, > non-restricted, open > source terminal server for Linux available? > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > On 8 December > 2011 12:06, > Anton Xuereb > > <[email protected]> wrote: > You > could > use > something > like nitrogen and then run nitrogen --restore to restore desktop > > On Dec > 8, > 2011 > 11:24 > AM, > "Ramon > Casha" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > So > far I like what I did with openbox/fbpanel/idesk. > > I'm > using openbox which has a desktop right-click menu that is configured via an > xml file, so I can provide these users with a preset menu without f'ing up > the normal menu for anybody else. In addition I have fbpanel which provides a > task bar, launchers and notify area at the bottom, and idesk which adds > launcher icons to the desktop as well as set a wallpaper (fbpanel and idesk > are also configured via simple xml files). Once I've fully configured the > user I can turn it into a home-directory skeleton for adduser, and set the > owner of the config files to root so the user can't change anything. > > Apart > from other advantages I have a really super-fast-loading desktop. > > Now > I'll set up a shell script which checks if the user is a member of a > particular linux group, and if so always launches this openbox session, > otherwise launching the regular Gnome / KDE / other desktop, and set it as > the command to launch Gnome/KDE/etc in NX. > > One > pending question... does anyone know how to make a script respond to a change > in desktop size? I want to re-run the command that sets the wallpaper if > possible. > > Ramon > Casha > > > On 8 > December 2011 08:56, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had once done something of the sort using fvwm. > > > > On Dec 8, 2011 6:59 AM, "Ramon Casha" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I could give it a try. Do you know if you can customise the panels > / menu / etc. and then lock them down so that the user can't launch anything > except the provided menu links? > > > > > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > > > On 7 December 2011 19:41, Philip Serracino Inglott > <[email protected]> wrote: > > did you consider LXDE? > > It uses Openbox anyway and is the desktop environment of > Lubuntu which I've had a good experience with. > > > > Cheers, > > Philip > > > > > > On 7 December 2011 15:13, Ramon Casha > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yep, me too. Gnome Shell and Unity are constantly > competing for suckiness. > > > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > > > > > On 7 December 2011 14:10, Anton Xuereb > <[email protected]> wrote: > > honestly...i don't know who actually still > uses gnome 3....people at work had nothing but problems with it.. > > > > > > i changed over to mint 11 and still on > gnome 2.3 atm > > > > > > On 7 December 2011 13:52, Ramon Casha > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Raphael is right. It's about dumb / > diskless terminals so there's a lot about PXE booting etc which I don't need. > > > > I think I've found what I wanted > though - a combination of openbox + idesk to handle the desktop icons + > fbpanel to provide a panel at the bottom. I completely gave up on Gnome. The > latest policy of "can't change any settings" means I can't get it to work as > I want it to :( > > > > > > Ramon Casha > > > > > > > > On 7 December 2011 13:34, Raphael > Borg Ellul Vincenti <[email protected]> wrote: > > LTSP is strictly about dumb > terminals. Thats not what you always need. > > > > > > On a sidenote, Jonathan, > please fix your email client. It screws up the threading of the mailing list. > > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:26 > PM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There is the Linux > Terminal Services Project which I think is what you would want for your given > project :) > > > > Regards > > > > Jonathan Aquilina > > > > > > Get a signature > like this. 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