[NTLUG:Discuss] Older laptop distro and (separately) remote control solution

[Rick Renshaw]

How about rdesktop?  It talks RDP natively.

     From: Leroy Tennison <leroy.tennison at verizon.net>
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 Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2015 5:34 PM
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Thanks for the feedback.  I see I probably need to clarify some.  I am 
looking to support clients over the Internet via remote control. The 
remote client will probably be the other OS, I'm running KDE4 but also 
have an "other OS" PC I could use.  Does that change things?



On 03/05/2015 04:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:30:53 -0600
> Christopher Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03/05/2015 03:26 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Leroy Tennison
>>> <leroy.tennison at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> Second, looking for an open source alternative to a remote control
>>>> program such as VNC or service such as LogMeIn.  I would use VNC
>>>> but the free version uses unencrypted communication.
>>> X2Go has been pretty zippy for me. It might work for your needs:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
>>>
>> I too was going to recommend x2go... but it does have issues,
>> especially with Gnome 3 and also issues when going from machine to
>> machine from an established x2go (keyboard mapping issues).
> You could just replace Gnome with Openbox or LXDE or perhaps Icewm, if
> those things are in its package manager.
>
> SteveT
>
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