On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:57:34 +0100, Martin Herkt
On Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2018 15:20:20 CET Petr Cerny wrote:
That said, please do not use X forwarding unless you really must even after ten people told you this sentence. Every time someone uses X forwarding,
. I strongly advocate using VNC (tunnelled through an ssh connection, if you like) - quick guide: 1) start `Xnvc` (preferably through the `vncserver`) - you'll need the xorg-x11-Xvnc package (on openSUSE); 2) connect to it with a VNC client (e.g. tigervnc, but there are more). It is also possible to attach to a running desktop session with x11vnc.
I second that. Note: There’s xrdp, too, which is compatible with Windows’ built-in RDP client and also supports forwarding audio, clipboard and other things, and it can forward single application windows (rather than a full session). However, setup is unfortunately more complicated than sshd.
These are to take over a desktop, something IMHO seldom needed on servers. Additionally, xrdp needs to run as a service, which will - again - use server resources where I most of the time would need them for server processing tasks. FWIW the old rdesktop tool will not connect to recentish Windows systems. You'll need xfreerdp for that, which - hate hate hate hate - changed the option syntax to something very NOT unix/linux like ☠☠☠☠☠ Old (rdesktop): rdesktop \ -T windows \ -u username -p - \ -g 1600x1024 -a 24 -C -x l \ -r clipboard:CLIPBOARD \ -K -N -P \ windows New (xfreerdp): xfreerdp \ /t:windows \ /u:username /from-stdin \ /size:1600x1024 /bpp:32 \ +clipboard \ /cert-ignore \ /nsc \ /v:windows And the worst thing there is that xfreerdb used to support the old-style options and they removed that in favor of this windows-like unremberable bullshit -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/