On 3/3/11 7:48 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
It's not the ports. It's the graphical presentation. Oh, and I've run NX.
I do like the way gnome collapses the icons in the task bar when you have enough of them - and pops up the list so you can see it. It makes it easy to find the terminal session connected to some particular remote host.
I'm really just fine with terminal windows and SSH-forwarded apps if those are necessary.
But why do you need screen, then?
I don't keep enough state running remotely to make it worth my time to have another level of nested desktop cruft to deal with. Ties up too much real-estate for no win. As I've noted several times: I've already got SSH local/remote.
I don't think of it as a remote desktop - it's 'my' desktop. It just goes where I go with everything still running.
For NX I'd have to install clients and servers, and X libraries. For something I really don't want or need in the first place.
That makes it sound complicated. It's really just having what you have on your current desktop running in a freenx session and connecting from a client wherever you are.
While I could see the value for someone /not/ running a native Linux desktop environment. I'm /not/ trying to change your mind about anything, maybe just open it up a tad to see my PoV.
Having cut/paste access between applications on different OS's is a plus, but the real benefit is always having access to the same desktop that almost never stops. And no need to run something like screen. I do run a separate session in a remote office as well for better connectivity to machines in that location and a few others for special purposes, but I prefer it even for the main way I access a local machine.