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On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I use the icaclient provided by Citrix to access my virtual desktop at work, |
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> but have never tried to set up something similar at home. What opensource |
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> software would I need for this? Is there a wiki somewhere to follow? |
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There might be something newer, but something along the line of x2go |
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is what you'd want. It just tunnels over ssh (with a built-in ssh |
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client) and runs an X server on the remote host which the clients |
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connect to (you can just launch xfce or whatever for your DM - I'd |
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avoid anything with fancy 3D), and then it compresses the X11 protocol |
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and does the presentation on your local workstation. The X server can |
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provide immediate replies to clients on its side so that the effects |
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of latency are greatly diminished. But, if you launch something like |
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chromium be prepared to watch the screen paint since it uses |
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client-side rendering. All you'll get is big blobs of images sent |
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over the wire for that window. However, for anything rendered |
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server-side you'll get a very interactive experience since the |
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component on your workstation can do much of the rendering |
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independently of the actual X11 server, which operates on a delay. |
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Rich |
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