Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver?atomcommentsDWiki2021-03-19T18:18:43ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/unix/RemoteXLifesavertag:CSpace:blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver:468876474846da511df25ae0c7ce26502d46a185Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>I'm not interested in full scale remote desktop/virtual screens; it's
important for how I work that remote X programs are regular X programs.
Disconnection and reconnection also isn't a feature for me because my
desktop setup is extremely tightly coupled to the physical screen size
and layout; I need a completely different layout at work than at home,
and I'd need a third on the laptop if I tried to remote a screen to there.</p>
<p>(People who run mainstream desktops probably don't run into this, since
they tend to have very generic layout policies for where constant things
go.'Taskbar all along the bottom and on the left monitor if there are
more than one' is very easy to adopt to any sized screen or set of
screens.)</p>
</div>2021-03-19T18:18:43ZBy Icarus Sparry on /blog/unix/RemoteXLifesavertag:CSpace:blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver:9491c9b8755a3a2a692db2d0edad365e80301b9aIcarus Sparry<div class="wikitext"><p>Have you tried the various X based solutions that create a virtual screen on your work machine and then allow you to view it remotely? This functions much like VNC except that instead of sending you pictures of rectangles of the screen that have changed it sends you X events which are intelligently compressed.</p>
<p>The advantage is much like tmux or screen, you can disconnect at one location (e.g. office) and reconnect at another (home) and have everything just as you left it.</p>
<p>The compression of the X protocol means that it doesn't take much more bandwidth than just using ssh by the time you have factored in the TCP/IP protocol overhead.</p>
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I use x2go.org
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</div>2021-03-17T20:13:32ZBy Bill Pemberton on /blog/unix/RemoteXLifesavertag:CSpace:blog/unix/RemoteXLifesaver:b20330ef6e3d2fc2f5d2d853876a5df04ce59bdeBill Pemberton<div class="wikitext"><p>For me the downside of forwarding emacs is that I have to make sure my emacs config got sync'd everywhere. Instead I use TRAMP so I've got one config to manage on my workstation and that's it.</p>
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