Hi,

I’m trying, without success so far, to initiate (or reconnect to an existing one) a remote desktop session (xfce here)

I’ve tried rustdesk, but this is sharing desktop[1]

I’ve tried nomachine, but even if it’s look like it can do Remote desktop[2] I see the login screen, and screen of the active user :/ not the one I give crendential for…

Xrdp fail… plain and simple…

Is that possible or am I dreaming ?

Thanks.


  1. an active user (in front of the computer) can share his desktop with someone remotly, both are seeing the same. Generally the all screen is sended to the remote user trough video compress. ↩︎

  2. a remote user can connect this his desktop session held (or not) open on the server. A user sitting in front of the acced computer and the remote user, do not see the same ! like tty ↩︎

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    20 hours ago

    VNC? You have your choice of servers, and clients are ubiquitous.

    A big gotcha is that you need to be careful with encryption/security, as in classic UNIX style VNC does one thing (remote desktops). It’s easy to forward over ssh though.

    You can also use VNC to share, which is not what you want; this depends on the type of server/settings. But you can definitely create a new virtual X11 session and access it remotely.