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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:30:04 -0700 From: Henry House <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Window Managers To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <[email protected]> On Wednesday, 22 April 2009, Brian Lavender wrote: > At school (Sac State) we log into a CENTOS system running GNOME, or I > believe you can select your own Window Manager, and all seems to work > fine. I hate VNC though. I haven't found a way for Alt-tab to work > except with TightVNC, click the Alt key and then select Tab. Which still > doesn't really work. The Alt-tab always go to the local host. > > RDP seems to work a whole lot better. There isn't an RDP server for > GNU/Linux, is there? There is one: Xrdp: <http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/>. It actually uses a VNC server, transparently, to encapsulate the user's session. When it works, it's nifty: the VNC server is started transparenently, system authentication is used instead (no special password just for VNC required), and users can reattach to their session. I have been messing around with it. Unfortunately, it has not been reliable in my testing. The main issue is that certain clients (typically the PDF viewers) cause the X server (VNC session) to die, then you end up with a phantom VNC process that is difficult to remove. This might be a strictly VNC problem for which Xrdp is not to blame. Nevertheless, I've decided that right now the system is not worth the effort. :( -- Henry House +1 530 848-1238 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -bill! Sent from my computer _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
