From gentoo-user Thu Aug 15 14:24:32 2013 From: Paul Hartman Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:24:32 +0000 To: gentoo-user Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What (free) remote desktop do you use Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=137657670511726 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/08/13 11:26, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> some recent updates of X11, gtk++ or glib has broken the possibility to >> use some gnome3 applications (like a recent balsa) >> via nxclient. >> >> Since NX3's internal X-server has some known deficiencies and Nomachine >> has stopped the development of NX3 and >> has closed sources of NX4, I am in need for some replacement since >> 'ssh -Y' is dead slow even on an 15 megabit/sec connection. >> >> What remote desktop do you use? > > > I've been using x2go for years. It's based on NX, so not sure if it will > exhibit the same problem. I also use x2go, but not gnome3 so I cannot speak to whether or not it has issues with that specifically. NX has had issues for past couple years with bad combinations of cairo + Xorg + NX libs causing weird things like missing fonts in gtk+ apps and random crashing/stalling. Latest version of x2go does not seem to suffer this problem, for now. The official x2go-client is not as good compared to nxclient, in my opinion, as far as managing connections and general look and feel and behavior of the app, but once you're connected it works just the same. I connect to my home computer from my mobile phone over 3G and the speed is great, but too bad the screen is so small! :)