On Fri, December 11, 2009 10:02, Tim Wescott wrote: > 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 > > Have you looked at wrapping VNC inside of an ssh connection? You can use something like:
ssh 5912:timslaptop:5901 [email protected] and then connect using VNC and connecting to localhost:5912. I'm going off the top of my head for the commands, so you might have to play with it a bit. Of course, this does require you to run VNC Server on your destination computer. Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce Registered Linux User #325725 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
