[kwlug-disc] GUI Remote Access

[William Park]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:30:48AM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 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...

I forgot...
    - Xnest -- nested X sever.  Eg.
	Xnest :1
	xclock -display :1	(from another terminal)
      So, to get a GUI login from local machine,
	Xnest :1 -query localhost
      and from another machine
	Xnest :1 -query 192.168.1.1
-- 
William