On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:02:31 +0000
Chris Green  wrote:

> However I agree about display etc., it always seems a bit clunky when
> using VNC.  Horses for courses though, if you want to run a number of
> GUI programs remotely then VNC probably makes sense.

 I've always used ssh -X (or -Y) to get a forwarded X connection
when running GUI applications remotely, for example my Calibre server runs
headless so when I need the GUI I just run ...

ssh -Y calibre@library

 ... from any machine with a display and the authorised keys (the
calibre user has shell set to the calibre GUI). There are no other X
clients in that jail, in particular no desktop environment, window manager
or even terminal. The only things the server exports are the GUI
application and a web interface, you can get to the console with physical
access but the console runs in text mode and can't display the calibre GUI.

 It always seemed wrong to forward the desktop when all you want is
the application(s), even more so when there is no desktop to forward.

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