Nicolas George (12024-07-18): > I want to display a desktop and applications running on a Debian box on > the screen and keyboard of a ChromeBook. Over LAN+WLAN mostly, but if it > can also work more remotely in degraded mode it would be nice. > > I see various options to try: VNC with a native Android client, VNC with > a client running in the Linux sandbox, x2go in the sandbox, Xpra in the > sandbox, etc. > > 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.
Thanks everybody for your suggestions. I was hoping some insight about the client side too, especially the user comfort, but it was not the correct mailing-list. I tried Xpra, which is the one I am already familiar with, but the Xpra client in the Linux sandbox only showed black windows, even with GDK_BACKEND=x11. Then before trying anything more fancy I tried just plain “ssh -Y” and it was plenty fluid enough, so I did not try anything fancier. (But that means I have to find out why Firefox is disastrously slow when I run it from the classrooms to my office on our gigabit network with millisecond latency.) Regards, -- Nicolas George
