[kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop

Tue Aug 29 09:17:06 EDT 2017

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Hi Charles! Thanx, but it wasn't really a tech support question, more
a reminiscence of how easy it used to be, meant as encouraging words
for Cranky...

- --Bob, who probably has Novell branded CDs around here somewhere

On 2017-08-29 09:00 AM, Charles McColm wrote:
> If you really want to know Bob I have my boxed SuSE Pro 9.2 still
> sitting at work ;-) You're welcome to borrow it for awhile. I loved
> 9.2, but remember 9.3 really felt bloated.
> 
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> To: KWLUG discussion Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME
> desktop
> 
> I wonder what SUSE was using cira v9.3 -- I remember setting up X 
> sessions to be accessed by VNC. Fairly simple, as I recall, just 
> adding a couple of lines similar to 'x1: vnc=1024x768' to the X 
> display config file...
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> 
> On 2017-08-28 04:24 PM, Jeff Smith wrote:
> 
>> Some new news on this issue:
> 
>> https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop 
>> [https://ctrl.blog/wp-content/uploads/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop-sharing-1072x603.png]<https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop>
>
>>  Remote desktop capabilities set to make a comeback in GNOME on 
>> Wayland<https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop> 
>> ctrl.blog Work on new Mutter APIs and Remote Desktop service
>> enable screen recording and remote desktop in GNOME under
>> Wayland.
> 
> 
> 
>> It seems that a) I'm not losing my mind and GNOME/Wayland does
>> not in fact currently have VNC baked in, and b) they are working
>> on fixing that (the Wayland VNC thing, not my mental health).
> 
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>> ________________________________ From: kwlug-disc 
>> <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org> on behalf of Khalid Baheyeldin 
>> <kb at 2bits.com> Sent: 18 August 2017 12:19 To: KWLUG discussion 
>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop
> 
>> 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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