[kwlug-disc] GUI Remote Access

[William Park]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 06:35:03PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Say you have two desktops, both running Ubuntu 16.04 with XFCE.
> 
> What are the available packages to allow on to access the other from and to
> the full GUI?
> 
> VNC was a solution some time ago. Also there was NoMachine.
> 
> What packages do I need at either end?

If you want remote GUI login, then connect to remote machine's
XDM/GDM/KDM from another X instance (:1), like
    X :1 -query 192.168.1.1

If you want app within already running GUI session, then
    - ssh -Y
    - RDP -- rdesktop
    - VNC -- many variations...
-- 
William