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Some clarifications. |
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On 3/22/22 1:28 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: |
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> Xvnc |
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I have looked at NoMachine (a.k.a. NX) in the past. But I've not tried |
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it myself because my work client machine has a VNC client built in and |
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doesn't have an NX client. |
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> As in run an Xvnc server as an X11 server / display. Point your |
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> programs at that display / server. Then have a VNC client connect to |
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> said VNC server. |
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There's another option in the VNC / NX arena, but the name escapes me at |
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the moment. |
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There is also the possibility of RDP and / or ICA (whatever name old |
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Citrix technology is going by these days). |
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If you're into retro computing, PC Anywhere / Timbuktu are options. |
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> I run programs like this on the daily. E.g. Lotus Notes 9.x running on |
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> an old CentOS 6.x VM (last supported version) displaying on contemporary |
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> Gentoo on my workstation. The latency is noticeable if you know what to |
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> look for. But the latency is also quite tolerable. |
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To be crystal clear, my Gentoo physical machine SSHs to my CentOS |
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virtual machine with X11 forwarding such that the Notes client shows up |
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on my Gentoo system. It's about as stock X11 as you can get. -- I |
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have contemplated messing with xhost / xauth (cookies) to avoid the |
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encryption / decryption overhead. But I found that I still needed |
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remote command execution to set the DISPLAY and launch the Notes client. |
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SSH makes this latter part trivial while also providing the former |
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part. This is across a switched 1 Gbps LAN in the same subnet. |
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This works well enough that I'm considering evaluating running more |
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programs on discrete systems / VMs / containers with X11 networking. |
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Grant. . . . |
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