On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:22:31 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Or you could just use VNC, which works on both platforms...
>>
>> Why would I care about the thing working both ways, if my primary
>> machine is the Windows machine?
>>
>> That aside, using VNC would of course have required me knowing of that
>> animal (which I didn't); X was a thing I knew would do the job I wanted
>> (provided I could find a free X server for Windows, which I did), so
>> obviously that's what I went for. (And as it runs fine now, there's
>> also no motivation for me to even try anything different.)
>>
>> Plus, X11 is still at the core of all the fancy Linux GUIs anyway
>> (whether it is KDE or Gnome or whatever), and is /designed/ for remote
>> desktop sessions, so why bother to add yet another layer of complexity
>> to get a feature that's already there.
> 
> As far as I know, getting X to actually work remotely is extremely
> difficult, whereas I know from experience that getting VNC to work
> remotely is trivial.

VNC is also trivially compromised unless you tunnel it over ssh or wrap 
it in ssl.

For Windows, IIRC, you just need to install MingW.  IIRC, that covers X 
protocol on Windows for accessing remote X servers (ie, it's a client, 
not a server).

> On the other hand, if you have something that works, then there isn't
> really a problem to solve.

That's certainly true.

Jim

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