Re: [PLUG] Remote access to Gnome or KDE

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

The old way of doing this was to enable XDMCP,  and you get a remote
graphical login screen.

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GDM_XDMCP.html

Unfortunately, with Ubuntu Karmic both the XDMCP server enable,  and
XDMCP login functions are missing / broken in the GUI.

However X is not encrypted,  so you may be better off ssh'ing and runing
'startkde'   if nor not local.    Freenx uses compression and reduction of
round-trip latency and may give you a faster desktop than ssh alone.

Lee


Casey Bralla wrote:
> Well, a little more googling and I figured it out.   Simply execute "startkde" 
> and you get a KDE environment.
>
>
> On Saturday 26 December 2009 2:51:29 pm Sonny To wrote:
>   
>> try freenx server. connect using qtnx client
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> I want to have the entire KDE or Gnome interface for a remote computer
>>> start on my local computer.   I can successfully run individual X apps
>>> remotely, but I'd like to have the entire system appear on my local
>>> screen.
>>>
>>>
>>> I know I can always VNC into the remote system, but this tends to be a
>>> little jerky, unlike  how the individual X apps look on my local machine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anybody know if I can run and entire KDE or Gnome session remotely?
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> Casey Bralla
>>>
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