On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:

Greg Freemyer said the following on 12/17/2011 12:34 PM: -- If you can read this, we wasted 32 billion bucks. -- bumper sticker on stealth bomber

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All,

I do a lot of remote desktop work.  The far end can be windows or linux.

I recently saw "terminals"

(http://terminals.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Features%20and%20Screen%20shots&referringTitle=Documentation)

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It's a free($) tool, but it runs only on windows and per the comments on the site it doesn't even run under Wine.

I'm familiar with tsclient (and I tend to leave that open on my desktop 24x7), but I'd love to have a more feature rich tool like terminals.

Does anyone know of a openSUSE compatible tool along those lines.

It depends on which features you are looking for. I use Konsole

"terminals" has    Multi tab interface so does consile    Open terminal in full screen, switch between full screen mode Well that's a function of the linux desktop    Resizable terminal window Ditto    Attached and dettached Windows Never tried that, but its called "detach current tab"    Connections history Konsole does that by means of 'profiles'    Customizable toolbars Yes    Open custom application from Terminals window Is that what .... Oh I see. Not relevant when you have KDE hotkey for a launcher    Toolbar for computer control panel applets Eh?

Well Konsole has 'bookmakr's and other configuration options too. http://www.linuxbloke.com/tag/konsole/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/start-and-control-konsole-dbus

There also Gnome Terminal http://multignometerm.sourceforge.net/web/screenshots.shtml

See also http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2010/11/6-best-linux-terminal-applications.html

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Anton, I too use konsole for terminal windows. And from there I do ssh out to various linux boxes. But: 1) the tabs don't show the name of the machine I've ssh'ed out to. Thus I have to remember which tab is which. 2) It doesn't provide a RDC does it. (Remote Desktop Client for logging into the graphic interface of a windows box.) 3) It doesn't provide a X-server (used for graphically logging into a Linux box) For now, my number one need is 2), but all 3 of the above would be useful. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Greg Freemyer said the following on 12/17/2011 03:07 PM:

Anton,

I too use konsole for terminal windows. And from there I do ssh out to various linux boxes.

But:

1) the tabs don't show the name of the machine I've ssh'ed out to. Thus I have to remember which tab is which.

Well *I* can set the tab name to the remote host name! See snapshot I have it set to "%w" which displays things like anton@mailgub:/etc/init.d YMMV

2) It doesn't provide a RDC does it. (Remote Desktop Client for logging into the graphic interface of a windows box.)

In the config I set it run whatever program I want. As it happens, my idea of a RDC is ssh :-) But I could equally well use rdesktop instead of ssh If I had a windows box and a clue as to how to set it up for RDC I'd try that and show you the settings.

3) It doesn't provide a X-server (used for graphically logging into a Linux box)

I'm not sure what you mean by that. If you're running Linux then you have the X server and a selection of of desktops -- it doesn't have to run under KDE, you can run it under XFCE; I know because I do on my laptop. I *do* have many Linux boxes and I can not only remotely log into them using ssh, I can remotely run graphical applications on them too. I think you may have a confusion over terminology. Linux and Microsoft use the terms "server" and "client" the other way round from each other when talking about display. Under Linux and X, you have display server. It may be a Linux box or it may be an X-terminal that was manufactured as such. But it is a *DISPLAY* server. The applications run on the client. For most of us running a single box the server and the client are the same. But I _could_ strip off all the desktops and stuff from the box I'm currently using and set up a ssh or tenet session to a remote box and run "startx" or "startkde4" or the XFCE or Gnome equivalents. The applications run on the remote client and use this display, the display server. Microsoft call it the other way round. Your display in that situation is the client that logs into a server. Now you may know all this, in which case I'm wondering if you really should be asking about XDMCP. Or I may be looking at the from my way rather than your way and you should be using Xvnc to do the 'flip-around' since as the man page says

So Xvnc is really two servers in one. To the applications it is an X server, and to the remote VNC users it is a VNC server.

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