networking questions

[Derek Broughton]

Goran Ristic wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Nov 2005, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> Goran Ristic wrote:
>> > 
>> > On Wed, 02 Nov 2005, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Chris Peterman wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > For 3) I'd use FreeNX
>> >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeNX
>> >> 
>> >> Me too.  I posted about this, here, this week.  It's a huge
>> >> improvement over VNC.
...
>> Any remote login through XDMCP has been broken (segfaults somewhere, but
>> syslog just says "in manager process", which isn't helpful) in Breezy &
>> Dapper for three  weeks, now.  Not VNC's fault, as I can't do it with
>> CygWin/X either - but I _can_ do a remote login to KDE with NX (which
>> isn't
> 
> How do you connect to a running gdm-instance? Yesterday I tried FreeNX.
> It worked well for the first time.
> Connected fine, but started an own X-instance.

I don't know.  Someone mentioned tunneling VNC over NX - how that would be
an improvement over "simple" tunneling of VNC over SSH I can't see.

I use KDE, and occasionally used krfb & VNC but I never really liked that
option.  Since my linux laptop has a widescreen (16:10) display, VNC always
had issues displaying its screen on a standard 4:3 monitor.
> 
> Suspending that instance worked, too, reconnect to the session not more.

I hadn't got around to trying that...

> I had to kill the stuff by hand.

...and I guess I'm glad I didn't :-)
> 
>> NX allows me to use a window occupying the whole available screen space,
>> scaling fonts appropriately, and well.  VNC never did - it's an option,
>> but it's considered Beta and it's buggy.
> 
> I think both programs are useful. :)
> And so both will be stayed installed here. :)

It seems if you want to actually share the display, you still need VNC.  If
you want to login remotely and get a gui desktop, NX is imo the way to go.
-- 
derek