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What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 35 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (22 children)

Remote desktop working like it does in windows.

  • easy to setup and use
  • can remote into a system that has been recently rebooted. Without needing to make the user auto login and set the keychain password to be blank.
  • resolution scales to remote client interface

I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn't have better RDP support)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH'd numbers

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I can do anything I "need" to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.

    At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Setting up vnc is not as easy as it should be. I really wish it as just send auth, if auth create virtual display and perf devices as user that actually sends it to remote client, user sees desktop env loaded.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    rustdesk it truly awesome.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    That's my biggest issue so far. With RDP I knew I could hook up my cheap Android Tablet on my private network and RDP my way to stuff I forgot to do or I needed urgently. Now I can do similar things with SSH but I still struggle to use VNC without it breaking my gdm, and not even to the full extent I'd wish for.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    Give https://remmina.org/ a shot. Solid RDP connection. I have been using it for a few years and works well with my work laptop (windows). I hated the VNC route.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Using RDP clients like Remmina is great. The problem is running a RDP server in linux.

    In order to connect you must already be logged in to the remote computer locally and have unlocked your keychain. If the remote computer lost power and rebooted you will not be able to get in unless you have set the computer to login automatically and have set the keychain password to be blank, which is not great for security.

    You can not use a different screen resolution in the client than you have setup in the server. This means that using "RD Client" on my Android phone to connect to my desktop computer with a resolution of 1920x1080 doesn't work. I need to use an alternate RDP client on my phone where a I can specify a custom resolution of 1920x1080. And then the user interface is tiny and does not fill my screen.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Which server are you using on linux? How did you configure autostart?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I use the one built into Gnome but I have run into even more issues trying to install and use other ones.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    that one does support autostart?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    yes But not in any way that makes it useful. It starts when the user logs into the computer locally. If I was going to do that I wouldn't need a remote session.

    You can set the account to login automatically, but this doesn't unlock the keychain which is needed to decrypt the user's RDP password. So you can do it but you need to set your account to login automatically and set your keychain password to be blank.

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