UltraVNC VS Xpra

UltraVNC Reviews

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UltraVNC mentions (9)

• any rustdesk alternative that can p2p focused, where can we remote over internet when the other pc is in the ready to pair mode and we know its public ip. Without any relay server

  That said several VNC software does what you want. As I recall UltraVNC was a popular choice. Source: 11 months ago

• How to access international internet in China

  Search for specific products to get around 'the great firewall' an alternative to paid for which I used when I worked in Beijing for a few weeks was an https tunnel back to my own PC at home using https://www.stunnel.org/static/stunnel.html then used an encrypted VNC connection with https://uvnc.com/ the encryption is a plugin also on their site as I recall. Source: 12 months ago

• Stable remote desktop Mac from Windows computer for Logic

  Simple VNC has never failed me. I do this a lot, and amy VNC client for windows, or any OS, (even iOS/Android) will do the trick. UltraVNC my preferred client. Source: over 1 year ago

• OpenSSH on Windows 10

  I use VNC over SSH for this. I like UltraVNC server: https://uvnc.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best Open Source free TeamViewer be like program

  Not like teamviewer but, https://uvnc.com/. 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