Tim Bruce - PLUG wrote: > 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 > Oh goody. More dinking.
Part of what burns me is that this is Ubuntu. It's supposed to be the Linux that's easy to use. If they put the @#$% thing on the menu, why aren't they making it obvious what you need to do to make it work? -- 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
