I'm not sure if I'm answering the question you intend to ask but linux has
remote desktop by default and pretty much always has because the X windowing
system has always had it. When you ssh to a linux machine and run a GUI
program, it knows to do the display on your local machine. Its kind of like
the CUI in that way. Imagine if you ran a character based program and the
output went to the console on the remote machine. You'd consider that
application broken, right? In the same way, X windows programs display the
output on your local machine and not on the remote console.
So for example, if you want to use gedit to edit a file on a remote machine,
you can ssh to the remote machine and run gedit. Even though gedit is
running on the remote machine, the display will be on your local machine.
You do have to configure this in ssh on the remote machine and I don't know
if its enabled by default. But the parameter to set is 'X11Forwarding yes'.
I've noticed that debian has a menu item labeled "remote desktop" or
something like that but I've never used it. I suspect it is for allowing you
to see someone else's desktop for support purposes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Mehler"
Hello,
I know about ssh, in fact that's how I usually access a linux machine remotely. That's cli based, I'm wondering if it's possible to do it via the GUI? Is something like vnc workable? I know it isn't on a windows machine, or some other method of access? In this case I'm using a Vinux VM with Orca.
Thanks. Dave.
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