if you want your Xto be pushed to windows using opensource apps look
up xming, that combined with putty can redirect your x output via SSH
to xming to render apps individually on your desktop. i liked it allot
more than NXserver.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Matt Graham <
danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> From: James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com>
>> So something like this
> [snip pretty accurate description of pros and cons of various remote-access
> things]
>> NXserver
>> I haven't used it
>
> NXServer + NXClient:
>
> Pro: very fast, can do whole desktop or single app, can encrypt all traffic
> (IIRC)
> Con: not free speech, only free beer, setup is much more complex than VNC or
> X11--it took me two days to get the silly thing working properly
> Prereqs: NXClient on local box, NXServer on remote box, a TCP channel between
> the two boxes. IIRC, you can set the port# to whatever you want, which is
> convenient for those with big iptables rulesets or a firewall they don't
> control between the two boxes.
>
>> if I need a full desktop for some reason (to keep apps up, whatever),
>> I bring up an X session in an xvfb and then shoot myself a VNC
>> session over the ssh tunnel.
>
> xvfb! It just keeps coming up.... I remember some guy who needed to run some
> app that absolutely refused to come up if it couldn't find a Display.
> xorg.conf with Monitor and Keyboard set to "none" didn't work either. This
> app needed to run on a machine with no monitor/keyboard. xvfb to the rescue.
> I had never tried to get at the virtual X with VNC; may try that in my Copious
> Free Time. It seems so obvious now.
>
> Keeping GUI apps persistent and/or moving their Displays from one machine to
> another really hasn't been worked on that much. Probably because it's got so
> many very annoying details and inescapable performance problems, and so few
> people seem to want to do that with their GUI apps.
>
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