Re: xserver-xspice to remotely connect to my Debian desktop

[Malte Schmidt-Tychsen <it@2c2.de>]

Hello Nicolas,

thank you very much for reading my post and your kind answer. I had a look at xpra and it does look very interesting. Though it does not fit my current user case. Did you try the Xspice setup with Debian 9? When you set up /etc/preferences like I described (and have the sid sources in /etc/sources.lis) and do:

apt-get -t sid install xserver-xspice

it will only pull that package from sid and not mess up a stable Debian install at all. I would love to hear how if you get the same results that I do.

Regards,

Malte

2017-07-12 21:49 GMT+02:00 Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>:

Le quartidi 24 messidor, an CCXXV, Malte a écrit :
> I am trying to setup the xserver-xspice package to remotely connect to my
> Debian desktop. It claims to be more bandwidth efficient compared to VNC

You can also try xpra in « shadow » mode.

But I have to ask: are you sure that « remotely connect to [your] Debian
desktop » is really what suits your needs best?

I suspect most people who are looking for a remote desktop system have
heard of the feature from the Windows world, and Windows being itself
can only send the whole desktop over the wire. But they do not realize
that Unix and Linux systems have many ways of achieving the tasks that
can be done with a remote desktop, and some of these ways would probably
be more convenient for them, depending on their exact needs: just access
the files, attach to an existing application or run a new one, etc.

Regards,

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  Nicolas George