Remote Desktop for Linux

[The_DR]

Hey Guys,

 

Currently I have a shitty Internet Connection at home, so often I work on a Win22 Server machine in a data Center connected via RDP. At home I have an Ultrawide Display (5120x1440) as my main Screen. With Windows everything works fine. When I resize a Window, everything is more or less smooth.

 

For some work, I also need Linux Desktop. So I decided to install Linux Desktop and a Machine in the Data Center and add xrdp as RDP Server. The machine runs the latest Ubuntu version. But I nearly can't use it via RDP. It takes seconds to draw a new window. The System is nearly unusable. Do you know a solution for this?

 

And I looked into the config of xrdp, caching and compression and all the other things to reduce the traffic is on.

[Eigenvektor]

Ubuntu should have remote desktop built in, no need to install other packages:

 

https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/sharing-desktop.html.ro

 

I would give that one a try

[Sauron]

There are many ways to do remote desktop in linux but my personal favorite is x2go; it's secure and only requires an open ssh port.

[ieleja]

For now I use xrdp, remote side is i5-4xxx, with KDE, but there are fast internet connections on both sides, performance is acceptable for things i use to do.

 I think, that using XFCE, less resolutions, less color depth can help. Or you can give a try VNC, X2Go or NX.

 

One weird idea, but it costs nothing — if these are not same Machines, you can connect from home to Windows Machine and from Windows Machine to Linux Desktop via xrdp...

[tortellini88]

In my experience using RDP on Linux is kind of dodgy. I came to terms that a VNC Scraping server is the way to go. No need to configure sessions and all that nonsense. It behaves like RDP. At one point, I needed to do some dev work and knowing my OS would get messy real quick. I spun up a Mint VM and VNC into that for dev stuff. Functioned pretty smooth.

 

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-start-a-vnc-server-for-the-actual-display-scraping-with-tigervnc/

 

With a little Linux magic, you can configure the scraping server to act as a service. Connect via Remmina or whatever you want to and you're done. Works like a charm.