[Bradford] remote desktop X11 access

[Nigel Smith]

I may have just replied to Alice, will try again with reply to all.

A very nice ssh tunnelled desktop pre-packaged affair I use is NX the
server is free for linux, and does extemely well, much better than
anything else I've tried oer the years.

Linky link link.

Client: http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-linux.php

Server: http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1

On 14 March 2010 11:10, David Spencer <d at daves-collective.co.uk> wrote:
>> I used to use ... the method to connect via the gdm login screen ( name
>> escapes me xdmcp?)
>
> yep thats the bunny
>
>> but this no longer works due to 1. network manager doesnt' work untill
>> logged on 2. Ubuntu have dropped the old GDM for a rewrite
>> I've tried vnc but due to screen sizes the laptop can't display all the
>> desktops screen and I had to logon 1st on the dedktop , bit of a pain and
>> counter productive
>> unless i've missed something p
>>
>> so any other ideas or tips would be fantastic
>
> ssh -l <username> -Y <host>
>
> (the important bit is the '-Y')
> and then kick off your apps from the command line (backgrounded with a &
> on the end)
>
> (-- although, disconcertingly, firefox will cleverly open a new window
> *locally* if you already have a *local* instance running, instead of
> starting a remote instance like you might want and expect.  But that's
> an exception)
>
> (And there are some longstanding bugs with some gtk2 apps that cause
> black/broken icons or an X error the first time in a particular login
> that you fire them up -- just fire it up a second time and it'll work)
>
> (all things considered, you might be best off persisting in getting
> tightvnc working the way you want it (and btw I would deffo recommend
> tightvnc over plain old vnc).  Anyway basically all you need is to add
> -geometry <width>x<height> to the vncserver command line or apparently
> these days you can somehow set it in /etc/tightvncserver.conf or in
> ~/.vnc/tightvncserver.conf)
>
> (Yours (parenthetically))
> -D.
> (ps. i hate lithp)
>
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