Best remote desktop solution

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dmbtech · Post by **dmbtech** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 12:21 pm

I am on a quest to find the best remoting tool, I like to have dumb thinclient laptops connect to my powerful desktop computer running gentoo, but have certain needs for a UI. I have been playing around with some remote desktop tools, but I am wondering if there is anything else out there that works well:
1. X2go-Been using this now, dynamically resizes partition as I resize window, somewhat fast with jpeg compression, artifacts and stability issues with some apps as in the ends its just fwding x11 calls. Can not use with gnome-shell, and some apps crash the server (visual studio code, some others I can't remember. I feel this will become depracated over time as linux desktop moves towards not xserver solutions, wayland etc. Also based on a very old xserver implementation (old NX fork). Does not support GL/spice
2. VNC-Awful experience, can't resize desktop resolution dynamically when resizing window, will only scale, seems to be slower, no good integration with the desktop, bitmap based.

What else exists? Is RDP server any good? Is there anything that can accelerate GL and maybe uses spice? I really need a good solution for resizing the resolution as I often have to switch between resolutions.

alamahant · Post by **alamahant** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:04 pm

net-misc/remmina

dmbtech · Post by **dmbtech** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:08 pm

alamahant wrote:net-misc/remmina

Remmina is just a client, I am looking for a remote server that supports resize, faster performance similar to x2go. I know if can be done, as company uses Linux citrix remote desktops and they work very well (but not open source or free)

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:20 pm

Maybe net-misc/tigervnc

Post by Hu » Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:31 am

I like xpra. It doesn't forward the entire desktop, but instead forwards the managed windows individually, so your local window manager can resize/move them independently as needed. It has a flag USE=opengl, but I've never used it to forward anything complex enough to know if that works or how well.

josedb · Post by **josedb** » Thu May 07, 2020 1:19 am

dmbtech wrote:
alamahant wrote:net-misc/remmina

Remmina is just a client, I am looking for a remote server that supports resize, faster performance similar to x2go. I know if can be done, as company uses Linux citrix remote desktops and they work very well (but not open source or free)

i have used nomachine, but i am using anydesk nowdays.

Both are great. But i preffer anydesk

kaetahr · Post by **kaetahr** » Sat May 09, 2020 4:22 pm

josedb wrote:
dmbtech wrote:
alamahant wrote:net-misc/remmina

Remmina is just a client, I am looking for a remote server that supports resize, faster performance similar to x2go. I know if can be done, as company uses Linux citrix remote desktops and they work very well (but not open source or free)
i have used nomachine, but i am using anydesk nowdays.

Both are great. But i preffer anydesk

I've been trying to use AnyDesk, however I've been getting the following error whenever I try to connect to a remote desktop:

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Remote display server is not supported (e.g. Wayland)

Even though I am using Xorg.
I start my session from a TTY by running xinit. Also, I manually set my XDG_SESSION_TYPE variable to x11, but the issue persists.

I've been using AnyDesk on Gentoo for a while without issues, but I believe this issue started when I removed consolekit from my system.
Looking around the web I've noticed other people in different distros having similar issues, such as this other forum:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=248764

Anyone have any idea on how this issue could be fixed?

ScootNBagNz · Post by **ScootNBagNz** » Sun May 10, 2020 5:06 pm

dmbtech,

I am looking for the same thing you are. The route I am taking on my home gigabit network is using insecure xdmcp+lightdm and combining that with virtualgl. Though what may interest you more is that the developer has also created a VNC fork that enables his vgl_faker. I am able to hardware accelerate mpv, and wine+World of Warcraft (though without dxvk libraries so fps is 8 on a rtx 2080 super , lol) through xmdcp session. I was considering making a thread about this, as I am experiencing some issues with the ease of start up and currently opera and vivaldi are complaining and won't run with the hardware acceleration. So my set-up is not yet truly complete with this.

I am not sure how thin your clients are, but you can experiment with virtualgl fairly easily with the analogous ssh X-forward that virtualgl provides. You will need virtualgl on your client and host, and there is a gentoo ebuild for this.

On host:
vglserver_config

onclient:
vglconnect -s user@ip
vglrun application or script

virtualgl:
https://www.virtualgl.org/vgldoc/2_2_1/
turbovnc:
https://cdn.rawgit.com/TurboVNC/turbovn ... html#hd009