Re: Remote desktop Debian -> ChromeBook

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Nicolas George (12024-07-18):
> I want to display a desktop and applications running on a Debian box on
> the screen and keyboard of a ChromeBook. Over LAN+WLAN mostly, but if it
> can also work more remotely in degraded mode it would be nice.
> 
> I see various options to try: VNC with a native Android client, VNC with
> a client running in the Linux sandbox, x2go in the sandbox, Xpra in the
> sandbox, etc.
> 
> Would perchance somebody here have already investigated a similar need
> and be able to tell which solutions are the most promising in terms of
> reliability and user experience.

Thanks everybody for your suggestions.

I was hoping some insight about the client side too, especially the user
comfort, but it was not the correct mailing-list.

I tried Xpra, which is the one I am already familiar with, but the Xpra
client in the Linux sandbox only showed black windows, even with
GDK_BACKEND=x11.

Then before trying anything more fancy I tried just plain “ssh -Y” and
it was plenty fluid enough, so I did not try anything fancier.

(But that means I have to find out why Firefox is disastrously slow when
I run it from the classrooms to my office on our gigabit network with
millisecond latency.)

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George