[SOLVED] What are people using for headless X displays on Slackware these days?
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What are people using for headless X displays on Slackware these days?
Neither Xvnc or Xvfb+x11vnc seem to give me working mouse buttons 8 & 9, so I was just wondering are there any alternatives? I was using TightVNC as viewer in both cases.
Also, I seem to get a messed up mouse cursor using the Xvfb+x11vnc combination.
The xrdp + xorgxrdp system works great on Slackware64 14.2 and it allows one to access a headless Linux server via any-ole RDeskTop Client ( Linux and Windows tested, I have no OSX to test )
Do use the SlackBuilds that allend appended to Post #16 in the Thread allend's post #16.
I am a week behind cleaning up and documenting the SlackBuilds and submitting them to SBo and with my WorkLoad, getting behinder all the time.
Anyhow, try xrdp + xorgxrdp ?
HTH
-- kjh
Last edited by kjhambrick; 12-03-2017 at 07:37 AM.
Reason: headless server -> headless Linux Server
The xrdp + xorgxrdp system works great on Slackware64 14.2 and it allows one to access a headless Linux server via any-ole RDeskTop Client ( Linux and Windows tested, I have no OSX to test )
Do use the SlackBuilds that allend appended to Post #16 in the Thread allend's post #16.
I am a week behind cleaning up and documenting the SlackBuilds and submitting them to SBo and with my WorkLoad, getting behinder all the time.
I have to have 3 Windows RDP desktops open on my desktop at work at the same time, all the time. Entire desktops, not just the app, but the entire bloody desktop. Yes, I can resize it a bit, but only to a degree as the app has a habit of hopping around the screen.
With that colouring my experience I've not felt the need to move from native X and the sanity of just the app window being forwarded.
My bad. Both the examples I gave (Xvnc and Xvfb) were in support of long-running GUI processes on the server, but I should have also stated that was my requirement.
I have to have 3 Windows RDP desktops open on my desktop at work at the same time, all the time. Entire desktops, not just the app, but the entire bloody desktop. Yes, I can resize it a bit, but only to a degree as the app has a habit of hopping around the screen.
With that colouring my experience I've not felt the need to move from native X and the sanity of just the app window being forwarded.
OldHolborn --
NXClient does the entire Desktop. Not sure about VNC.
Remote Desktop can display a single App and that feature does work when you're running xrdp + xorgxrdp on a Remote Linux Box.
The linux man page for rdesktop ( `man rdesktop` ) mentions SeamlessRDP which is apparently available for Windows too: http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp
I don't use RDP on Windows Machines much ( at all ) ... I just needed a replacement for NXServer / NXClient and xrdp + xorgxrdp seems to be 'it' for me.
Maybe SeamlessRDP can help with your Windows Sessions ?
Attached are pictures of /usr/bin/xterm via RDesktop on a Windows 7 Client and from my Slackware64 14.2 Laptop on a remote Test Machine.
When I exit the remote xterm session, the RDesktop Session closes as one would expect.
I suppose it depends on the remote GUI App you need to run ... xrdp + xorgxrdp seems to work fine on the remote Slackware64 14.2 machine ( samsung laptop )
HTH but after all I've written, I am not sure I am addressing your Qs ...
The xrdp + xorgxrdp system works great on Slackware64 14.2 and it allows one to access a headless Linux server via any-ole RDeskTop Client ( Linux and Windows tested, I have no OSX to test )
I'm afraid this has got me pretty confused. According to the diagram on this page:
This xorgxrdp sits atop Xorg, so that presumably means I need something like Xvfb if I don't want a real display, correct?
And yet it later says:
"xorgxrdp supports screen resizing"
But I didn't think you could resize an Xvfb to arbitrary sizes. Or is that possible now?
Anyhow, I'm very happy to try this out, but think I need some config files. I ran xrdp and connected locally with rdesktop, it just froze when I connected and selected Xorg (or most of the other options), so that part isn't working in isolation. Xorgxrdp builds and installs fine for me (Slackware current, from Git), but I guess I need to plumb it into xrdp to actually get a display?
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