Re: [gentoo-user] vmplayer over ssh - very very very slow mouse

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On 6/12/2010, at 12:20am, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> ...
>>   In general graphics within XP over shh are fine - nearly as fast as
>> running an X app on the same machine. When I click on something I get
>> a new app screen within XP painted and displayed here quickly. Only
>> the mouse cursor is so slow as to make the machine very difficult to
>> use.
>>
>>   I'm wondering if there might be a better way to run that sort of
>> setup so that the cursor responsiveness is more reasonable?
>
> Remote desktop seems to be much better over slow connections like this.
>
> There are a number of ways of doing this. I've used net-misc/rdesktop in a pinch, but couldn't say how responsive it is. You could also run Windows locally and use Microsoft's own Remote Desktop viewer, as that is very good, and forward the ports in some way.
>
> XP Home may not accept Remote Desktop connections. XP Pro is restricted to a single connection, I think, and its setup is a bit fiddly - enabling Remote Desktop on 2003 Server is much nicer.
>
> Stroller.

So if I understand, this would require that I start vmplayer at the
remote but don't display it locally? Then, once that's running use
remote desktop (or maybe VNC?) to display it here locally?

As I'm running XP Home on both ends I'm not sure the Remote Desktop
app will work, but VNC is a possibility I suppose. Maybe I could
create a new user at the remote machine and then get someone to log
into that, starting that desktop displayed down there, and have that
environment automatically start VNC.

The problem is these are parents in their 80's, not college age IT
majors. It needs to be simple or it won't work. Best if it's something
that I can handle from here completely.

The issue is progamming of a Logitech Harmony remote which is a USB
device) at their house. For various reasons I don't want to use
Concordance at this time.

Thanks,
Mark