[kwlug-disc] Remoting into GNOME desktop

[Bob Jonkman]

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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).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________ 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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