[NTLUG:Discuss] Older laptop distro and (separately) remote control solution

[Steve Litt]

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:30:53 -0600
Christopher Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> On 03/05/2015 03:26 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Leroy Tennison
> > <leroy.tennison at verizon.net> wrote:
> >> Second, looking for an open source alternative to a remote control
> >> program such as VNC or service such as LogMeIn.  I would use VNC
> >> but the free version uses unencrypted communication.
> >
> > X2Go has been pretty zippy for me. It might work for your needs:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology
> >
> 
> I too was going to recommend x2go... but it does have issues,
> especially with Gnome 3 and also issues when going from machine to
> machine from an established x2go (keyboard mapping issues).

You could just replace Gnome with Openbox or LXDE or perhaps Icewm, if
those things are in its package manager.

SteveT

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