I wrote quite a while ago with problems with sharing my desktop under Ubuntu. It looks like it ought to work, I have the remote server set up so that it should share the desktop all the way, yet the best I can get (and intermittently at that) is a view of the desktop that happens to be open on my machine -- this is not helpful for doing the occasional bit of work on the computer in my office when I'm physically up in the house.
Someone suggested using ssh. This works after a fashion -- I can 'ssh -X' into the remote machine, and if I have remembered to turn off Thunderbird I can get my mail. Trying to do simulation runs with Scilab is a disaster -- Scilab uses OpenGL, and either the way that it uses it or something about OpenGL disagrees with my laptop, and it will do so through an ssh connection even worse than on the laptop itself. I recently upgraded both of the machines in question to 9.10, in hopes of improvement -- it made no substantial change (although I now have OOo 3.1, so it's not a total washout). Remote desktop connections with Windows, at least on a fast network, are easy and seamless for the user. It sure would be nice if Linux could offer the same thing. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services Voice: 503-631-7815 Cell: 503-349-8432 http://www.wescottdesign.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
