Let’s spice up

Paolo Redaelli — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:20:47 +0000

In the last two months I’ve been almost forced to use this humble EeePc of mine at work: a humble netbook from 2010. It was cheap even then (199€ with Ubuntu!) that I have bought because of its portability, knowing it was a slowish machine. For my work flow it’s unbearably slow so I use the plain old remote X sessions, such as paolo@eeepc:~$ ssh -Xf laboratorio oocalc. On a plain LAN it’s almost perfect, while a VNC session is much slower.

I tried Xrdp but on Centos it has some glitches. So why keep trying to use when good old X-Windows is up to the task?

Well, I do acknowledge that in case of real remote session a plain X-session is the slowest thing on planet Earth while RDP seems to provide a better experience than VNC. Too bad I’ve been unable to make it work without passing trough a local VNC session which seems to me a workaround.

X2Go, remote desktop faster than VNC

Paolo Redaelli — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:34:19 +0000

Sometimes VNC feels too slow, expecially other slow links.

Enters X2Go – everywhere@home!

X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This is not to be confused with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, which is a competing Remote Desktop solution and protocol.

VNC – Paolo Redaelli

Let’s spice up

X2Go, remote desktop faster than VNC