Making VNC behave like Windoze RDP

Christopher K. Johnson ckjohnson at gwi.net
Wed Feb 9 16:24:12 UTC 2005


Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On 9 Feb 2005, at 16:05, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>
>>> But you can't keep programs running on the remote machine if you 
>>> close your SSH session or shutdown your client computer, can you?
>>>
>> Use dtach or screen at the start of your SSH session and you will be 
>> able to reconnect to what you were running with a later SSH session.  
>> Each of these is provided by an rpm package of the same name in the 
>> base Fedora Core distro.
>
>
> Of course. That works for command-line sessions, but you won't be able 
> to reattach to a dettached ssh session running X11 applications and 
> expect everything to be in place.
>
Agreed.  NX has some capability for resuming sessions which you detach 
from, although it was still a little shaky when I last tried it a couple 
of months ago.

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