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TigerVNC mentions (11)

• Black Screen Issues on Raspberry Pi 3 When Opening Apps via VNC

  This has been around for a while and so far RealVNC does not have a fix. It's possible that something like TigerVNC [their site] may cope but I've not tried it. Source: 11 months ago

• OpenHWW: Dedicated OpenBSD Laptop As Hardware Wallet

  PS. OpenBSD comes with vmctl, it is a tool like Docker or Qubes VMs. You can jail Firefox inside a VM then connect to their GUI desktop via tigervnc. But I believe, it is too paranoid. Separate user and separate disk partition for Firefox is more than sufficient, given OpenBSD paranoid approach to the application address spaces. Source: 11 months ago

• Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 20.04

  Create a file called config and add one option each line if you need to give the VNC server more choices. Here's an illustration: Edit ~/.vnc/config. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?

  TigerVNC[0] might be of interest in this domain. 0 - https://tigervnc.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Recommended remote desktop software

  There are multiple implementations, I like TigerVNC which is maintained by Red Hat. Source: over 1 year ago

Xpra mentions (27)

• Cool but Obscure X11 Apps

  One of my favorite bits of software is Xpra [0], "screen for X". You'd run it and it would start another X server (start apps in it with `DISPLAY=:1 xterm` or whatever), and you would "attach" it to your running X server with `xpra attach`. You can attach to e.g. `ssh://hostname/:1`, so I ran a firefox instance on a homelab server and attached to it from my laptop and my desktop to not have to bother keeping... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Alternatives To X2go?

  I’ve used Xpra in the past to connect to a remote system for GUI stuff, but I almost exclusively use ssh because most of the time I don’t need to run a remote windowing system. Source: about 1 year ago

• I want to (securely) remotely access my Pop!_OS desktop from my Pop!_OS laptop - what’s the best way to do this in 2023?

  To add to this if you need to access graphical applications of an entire desktop environment you can use Xpra or MOONLIGHT (I suggest the second one if you want to game on the remote desktop or need very low latency in general), you can use both of these through a ssh tunnel (you need to enable this and X forwarding in the config) so if you setup and allow access to ssh correctly you can also use these without too... Source: about 1 year ago

• It’s 2022, what good alternatives for Remote Desktop exists for Linux that can give decent frame rates and gpu acceleration?

  Xpra.org It has hardware acceleration (h264 encoding/decoding) for high framerates. Source: over 1 year ago

• Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots

  You might be able to do the screen recording today using Wayland ports, or nested display servers a la Xpra. https://xpra.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago