On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/23/25 1:50 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> but lately I'm using xpra
1) does it open an independent session from the console use?
2) does it open to the session on the console?
3) does it have multi-factor authentication (QR tabs,etc.)
4) will it co-exist with Wayland?
5) how much of your hair do you have to tear out to
set it up?
Both x2go and xpra allow you to connect to a complete remote desktop. The desktop is persistent, so all the work I'm doing is still there when I reconnect. In fact, any running processes connected to that desktop keep running whether I'm connected to the gui or not. Reconnection with a network change is no problem, so I can and do regularly reconnect from different locations with no issues.
Perfect for my use case, which often requires long-running ML or simulations.
Sorry, I don't understand the 1st 2 questions.
Both are built on ssh, so whatever authentication you have setup for ssh should work AFAIK.
All X apps co-exist with wayland. You can run all the wayland on your local machine you like and also in parallel run X11 apps, of which these 2 remote desktops are examples.
IIRC I didn't have much trouble setting up x2go. I did have 1 annoyance with it. I have my caps-lock remapped as ctrl. Every time I start a new x2go session (not connect to an existing one) I have to fuss around with getting this remapping working. I rarely start a new session, so it's not a big deal.
x2go is built on a wonderful Xwindow compression library which was developed by an Italian company, which went out of business about 10 years ago, but the code is all open source so various other projects now adopt it. It is fantastic for low bandwidth connections, otherwise X is very chatty and performs badly. There is a Fedora repo for x2go and installation should be easy (if you follow the instructions and add the repo). You'll need a client on the local and a server on the remote.
xpra is available in Fedora. The version there is I believe a bit old and I actually built and installed a newer one. If you go to xpra source, there is an rpmbuild setup. I just used it and I believe built with little or no problem. I did have a bit of trouble initially learning how to start it for my use case (just a 1-line CLI), but the maintainers are very responsive and told me how to do it. If you're interested I can provide the rpms (version 6.3 something), but probably you should try the Fedora version and see if that does what you want. I initially went this route when I was first learning about xpra setup, don't actually recall what motivated me to build my own newer version.
For either one you should use a simple remote desktop to avoid issues (I'm looking at you, KDE). lxde is a good choice.
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