[X2go-user] Hooking Up To A Running X-Session

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 21:50 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> On Di 12 Apr 2011 21:32:23 CEST "John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
> 
> > We take a slightly different approach - and that is exactly what it is -
> > different - not better or worse.  In our case, we want our users working
> > in their virtual desktops all the time and the virtual desktops are all
> > accessed across the Internet.  Thus, we did not want users to have to
> > leave their virtual desktops to open another X2Go session in shadow
> > mode.  Instead, we placed "share desktop" and "View Another Desktop"
> > icons on their virtual desktops which use X11VNC to share the active
> > desktop.  Thus, all activity is from within the virtual desktops.
> >
> > Since the VNC connection is inside the LAN (between virtual desktops),
> > the performance is very good and we gain the Internet boost from NX for
> > VNC just like we do for RDP when we push Terminal Server sessions
> > through NX.  Just another way for those with environments similar to
> > ours - John
> 
> This sounds nice!!!!
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
It's actually very similar to the X2Go desktop sharing as I believe that
also uses VNC rather than NX for the shadow session.  The main
difference is whether one shadows from one's physical desktop or one's
virtual desktop.  Thanks - John