[kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

There was a recent thread here in response to a similar question that
I asked.

I tried VNC, but it is very slow.

NoMachine worked fine. There are .deb packages that you install using
gdebi and they work seamlessly. Little network overhead and very
responsive.

On 8/18/17, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> With the upcoming changes to Ubuntu (GNOME and Wayland), and with the
> current similar state of Fedora and other distros, has anyone given any
> though as to how to remote into a system such as these and remotely
> controlled the desktop (similar to RDP, VNC, etc.)
>
> I'm trying to plan out how I can contact my machines once I upgrade the
> Ubuntu boxes, as well as the ones currently running Fedora 26.
>
> It seems that my current solution of VNC or X11VNC over SSH isn't going to
> work once they move from X to Wayland.  Sure, I could drop back to X, but I
> wanted to see how we can do this like it says in the brochure...
>
> From what I've seen so far, we're going to really rock the remote
> connectivity boat when we switch to Wayland, and the next version of Ubuntu
> is supposed to do just that.  As of right now, I am unable to bring up my
> personal laptop's Fedora 26 desktop remotely because I haven't been able to
> find a Wayland solution.
>
> Connecting to Ubuntu Unity desktops is easy with SSH and VNC (using
> TigerVNC in most cases).  But from what I understand, VNCserver (and its
> variants) does not support Wayland, only X.
>
> So what we need is:
>
> SSH tunnel (or a similarly secure GUI connection)
> a Wayland/GNOME ready GUI presentation.
> An "always-on" connection that doesn't depend on someone being logged on at
> the server end (for example, if I reboot the server remotely I still want
> to come back and see a GUI logon.  AFAIK you can't do this with Vino.)
>
> And of course, ways to achieve this using a client that's either Linux or
> Windows (for those of us forced to use Windows at work....)
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>


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