Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
> 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.
>
You're doing the same as I do, however there are cases where this
doesn't work too well.

For example if you have a relatively slow connection running X across
the connection is very slow indeed (try running a web browser using X,
it's not really practical).  Using VNC in this case make things usable.

I still, like you, nearly always use 'ssh -X .....'.

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Chris Green
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