On 11/09/2013 12:08 PM, Jim Cunning wrote:
On 11/08/2013 05:18 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/8/2013 2:49 PM, Ted Byers wrote:
Is it posible to have some kind of GUI, either KDE or Gnome, that runs over ssh to let me work on those machines, at least until I can get out to get a replacement monitor? This works (as others have mentioned) on a fast local network, but you will be disappointed with the results if you have to traverse the internet.
You can launch either the full remote Graphical desktop, or simply a graphical program.
Serviceable but not all that great.
It is true that the performance of an X program over an SSH tunnel will be very disappointing, but the performance of VNC to view an entire remote graphical desktop is quite acceptable, particularly using the "tight" encoding available with the TightVNC package (which I have on Ubuntu, but should also be available with OpenSuse). My remote location has only a 1Mbit uplink speed, but I find the performance to be more than simply serviceable. I run firefox regularly through a SSH tunnel over a local network, as would be the case here, for me it runs fine.
Just to be clear about VNC, you're not actually launching either a graphical program or a full desktop. With VNC, you're simply looking at a copy of the remote desktop and manipulating it as though you were on the remote keyboard and monitor. In fact, the monitor at the remote location (if someone were watching) would show exactly what you see and do remotely.
Jim
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