Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> writes: > Would perchance somebody here have already investigated a similar need > and be able to tell which solutions are the most promising in terms of > reliability and user experience.
I've mostly used VNC and x2go for Windows-to-Linux and Linux-to-Linux. VNC was and is: - Solid and we actually use it at work too. - Limited in the number of mouse buttons at some point to five, minor but annoying. At the time I was used to 7. - In VNC you run a desktop in the remote end so that needs to be configured and maintained. I'm not a fan of this since it's usually just a small handful of apps I want to run. x2go was: - Slow to connect. - Reconnects from another machine were a hit or miss, mostly miss. So it really wasn't "screen for GUI apps" although that would've been useful. - Keyboard mappings via xmodmap were sometimes ignored. - It didn't have the mouse button limitation of VNC. - It has a mode where it presents a list of apps on the remote machine so don't need to setup a desktop, can just start the app you want. I don't know if my little gripes about x2go are valid today, I now use it occasionally from Windows to Linux. Certainly the connection is slow to form even in a LAN. xpra I've tried some years ago but the documentation wasn't very clear to me. Especially how to resume a session. Haven't looked in a while.
