[X2Go-Dev] X2Go vs. xrdp

Nable 80 nable.maininbox at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 30 22:22:06 CEST 2013


> Furthermore, xrdp encapsulates the VNC protocol
AFAIK, that's not 100% truth. XRDP has several options (including
rdp2rdp proxy), personally I use (for most setups) x11rdp + xrdp (Xvnc
is too resource-consuming), although sometimes (for special setups) I
use X2Go because of Debian packages (one has to build x11rdp from
source to get the best recent version) + out-of-box sound forwarding
support + easy directory sharing + ready thinclient packages.

Here are some more observations from me: when you have a weak/slow
client (Vcxsrv and XMing seem to be rather slow on my old laptop with
WinXP) and heavy server, the xrdp seems to be working better. When you
have rather powerful client and want to reduce amount of software
rendering on server-side, X2Go seems to be better. 2developers:
please, correct me if I'm saying smth wrong, as I don't know much
about the internals of X11-related software.



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