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    From Gamgee@1337:3/191 to All on Friday, June 06, 2025 19:50:33
    Looking for some suggestions on what works well for RDP/VNC connections
    between two Linux boxes, both running GUI (X). Not interested in
    anything for Windows, just Linux-to-Linux.

    What's your favorite? Thanks for ideas.


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  • From paulie420@1337:3/129 to Gamgee on Sunday, June 08, 2025 13:17:23
    Looking for some suggestions on what works well for RDP/VNC connections between two Linux boxes, both running GUI (X). Not interested in
    anything for Windows, just Linux-to-Linux.

    What's your favorite? Thanks for ideas.

    I use RealVNC - RealVNC Server and Viewer...

    for a viewer, tho, there are several more FOSS titles; TigerVNC... in this case, tho, I like RealVNC for its accounts - you can have all your user/passwords for both local and remote VNC connections - for example I help other sysops using this and can keep their connections all in one place/account.

    Some might not like this, but RealVNC performs really well IMO.



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  • From Gamgee@1337:3/191 to paulie420 on Sunday, June 08, 2025 16:25:17
    paulie420 wrote to Gamgee <=-

    Looking for some suggestions on what works well for RDP/VNC connections between two Linux boxes, both running GUI (X). Not interested in
    anything for Windows, just Linux-to-Linux.

    What's your favorite? Thanks for ideas.

    I use RealVNC - RealVNC Server and Viewer...

    for a viewer, tho, there are several more FOSS titles; TigerVNC... in
    this case, tho, I like RealVNC for its accounts - you can have all your user/passwords for both local and remote VNC connections - for example
    I help other sysops using this and can keep their connections all in
    one place/account.

    Some might not like this, but RealVNC performs really well IMO.

    Thank you, Paulie. Going to try and work on this some later this
    evening, and giving TigerVNC a look. Appreciate the reply.



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  • From hyjinx@1337:2/104 to Gamgee on Sunday, June 15, 2025 20:22:48
    Looking for some suggestions on what works well for RDP/VNC connections between two Linux boxes, both running GUI (X). Not interested in
    anything for Windows, just Linux-to-Linux.

    What's your favorite? Thanks for ideas.

    I mean VNC etc all have their place but tbh, if you are running X11 (xorg etc, not Wayland), then I would just tunnell an exported X over SSH then you can launch the apps on one box and have them display on the other. That was the beauty of X11 in the O.G. days. When I found out about that, it blew my mind!

    From memory, all you need to do is set up the ssh tunnel thusly:
    localboxen$ export DISPLAY="otherboxen:0"
    localboxen$ ssh user@otherboxen -X

    now, from localboxen, run any X11 app you like, say GIMP:
    localboxen$ gimp &

    and instead of appearing on localboxen's screen, it'll appear on otherboxen's screen.

    Magic!

    -Al


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