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Linux remote desktop

KilwaKilwa Member
edited December 2011 in General

Hello,

I have a small debian VPS and I want to use the remote desktop. Please someone can help me to install a light version? I just want to use it to upload small videos (50 or 100MB) to vimeo.

Thanks!

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  • fanfan Veteran

    VNC+LXDE is easy and lightweight.

    See: http://wiki.mediatemple.net/w/(ve):Install_VNC_on_Ubuntu

  • KuroKuro Member

    For what you are trying to do, you could do so without running a desktop enviroment & VNC on your VPS, by using X11-Forwarding over SSH :)

    If you are running linux on your PC, you can simply use the -X flag with ssh to enable X11-Forwarding; If you are on Windows and using PuTTY, you will need to install Xming, and enable X11-Forwarding in PuTTY's configuration options.

    You of course also need to make sure you don't have X11-Forwarding disabled in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config ;)

    Then when you get your SSH shell open, you can just start a web browser from the command line, and its window will magically appear on your local desktop :D

  • KilwaKilwa Member

    @Juro: wow that sounds so good. I'll test it. Can i contact you later if it didn't work?

    Thanks a lot =)

    @fan: Thanks for the link!

  • KilwaKilwa Member

    Hmm...what browser to install?

  • SpeedBusSpeedBus Member, Host Rep

    @Kilwa : Chromium (Compile it or RPM) or Chrome (RPM) or FireFox (Simple install apt-get install firefox)

  • earlearl Member

    Can't you just tunnel with putty? browsing with X11-Forwarding was kinda slow for me...

  • JoelJoel Member

    Kilwa....
    NXMachine (VNC) + XFCE (GUI) + Iceweasel (BROWSER) and you're set!

  • djvdorpdjvdorp Member

    thanks for this

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    @Joel said: NXMachine (VNC)

    NX != VNC. IMO NX is better than VNC, it runs via SSH.

  • JoelJoel Member

    @Infinity said: NXMachine (VNC)

    You are 100% spot on, but for the sake of not having to explain it and everyone I have shown it to just goes "oh so it's VNC" I thought I would let it slide for now.

    Since using NoMachine/NX I have never really wanted to use VNC. NX is faster on all counts, and if you want multiple sessions it shines well ahead.

    Thanked by 1Infinity
  • dnomdnom Member

    I'm thinking about trying x2go (http://www.x2go.org) I heard it's faster, uses less bandwidth,can resume session on different device,and other cool features. Has anyone tried?

  • djvdorpdjvdorp Member

    @dnom said: I'm thinking about trying x2go (http://www.x2go.org) I heard it's faster, uses less bandwidth,can resume session on different device,and other cool features. Has anyone tried?

    Not tried yet, but kinda curious after googling it! Would like to try it myself too.

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