LXer: Remote access in Linux
 

Published at LXer:

If you have ever tried to access a Windows box remotely, it is very likely you suffered a lot of frustration. Remote desktop works great… but only when you have a stable broadband connection to your remote machine. In GNU/Linux you (as usual) have a choice – you can connect remotely, both graphically and text-based (for maximum performance) using at least a few methods described in the article.

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well in suse and ubuntu i have been able to rdesktop xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -f (-f =full screen) they you do control alt enter to get to show the x in the top right hand corner. i can close it out. i use it all the time from home when i remote to work from home when im oncall.