How do I set up Xfce to operate remotely?

David Mohr squisher at xfce.org
Tue Jan 26 21:37:04 CET 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Todd and Margo Chester
<ToddAndMargo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have three CentOS 5.4 servers I need to remote
> administer.  All three have Xfce 4.4.2 (no RPMs, so
> I can not upgrade) on them.
>
> How do set up Xfce such that I can remotely operate
> it from both Linux and Windows clients?  Sort of like
> Terminal Services, only the server is Linux/Xfce.

To be honest this question is not at all Xfce related, but easy enough
to answer:
- Use remote X, like ssh -X
   (kind of slow, requires X server on windows)
- Use NX, fast and pretty comfortable. Client is non not open source but free.
   (nomachine.com, or look for freenx, possibly neatx)
- Use VNC, not as fast / pretty looking, easy to set up
   (look for tightvnc, realvnc for windows)

~David



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