>> In the days I used MS Windows, I had a suite of progs that allowed >> me, when run on both boxes, to see the desktop of one box in a window >> on the other, and mouse and keyboard actions in that window would >> act on the remote box. > > You want the whole desktop, or a couple of graphical programs? > > In the first case, look for packages satisfying the virtual package > vnc-server (for server side) or vnc-viewer (for viewer side). also for the desktop (as in X-Server) that's already running, try x11vnc. > In the second case it's as easy as "ssh -X". That works well, be aware though that this is X forwarding, you enable remote code execution[1] on you local machine (ssh-client) for the remote machine (ssh server) - do this only if you trust the server as much as your client. Also you get a new instance (copy) of the program, not the one that may be already running. Arian. [1] not directly, but by bad security of Xorg.
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