Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session
John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> writes:
> lee writes:
>> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server
>> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have?
>
>> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session
>> (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be avoided gnome
>> --- KDE only crashes in vncserver) on a VM running Debian.
>
> X11 is network-transparent. Support for remote sessions has been built
> in from day one. Just run an X server on the remote machine and
> configure it to connect to the VM instance. Use ssh unless the
> connection will be local.
How would I generally configure a client to magically start all
applications on the server? Especially with a Mac or a thin client,
that seems difficult to do?
I'm already doing this for some apps on my desktop, and it's nowhere
near a transparent solution.
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