Hi All,

I am not sure is it the right forum to have this question.

If I am doing ssh to Linux box and run the few heavy GUI application then I have below doubts

1. which hardware (memory & CPU) that application will use (Local machine's or Remote machine's)?

2. Will it use Local machine's graphic card or Remote machine's Graphic card?

3. If it's using remote machine's hardware then is it possible to force it to use Local machine's hardware and vice-verse?

4. Will it be same if I am doing ssh from Linux and windows?


Regards,
Yogesh

im not 100% but i believe with X11 Forwarding there is zero rendering local. in other words all of the rendering is done on the system that is ssh'ed into, not the one you are physically on. this will be the same no matter what OS you use to access the remote application.

this is an issue with RDP as Microsoft would call it and X11 Forwarding as it is known for Linux.

keep in mind that even with RDP all you are passing is keystrokes and mouse clicks. 100% of the rendering is performed on the remote system.

Linux (X11 / XOrg / XWindows) uses a very differerent arrangement than does Windows (Remote Desktop).

Linux uses a client-server windowing system. (Even on your local machine, there are two processes running.) One sends instructions to the other, which does the actual rendering. And so, these two halves can be separated by some distance. You can use ssh forwarding, or VPN or any other sort of "tunnel," to send those commands "across the wire."

The rendering is always done by the client. The server might not even have a graphics-card installed ("headless" servers often don't ...), yet it can run a full GUI session.

By comparison, Windows' GUI system is very-tightly integrated into the server, and a remote-desktop actually sends bitmaps and such from one side to the other. The host is doing all of the graphics, and the remote is simply getting little slices of it.

Both arrangements work, but they work very differently.

sundialsvcs many thanks for clarifying my mistake. thank you.

Thanks sundialsvcs & lleb for making clear on this.


Regards,
Yogesh