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Contributor snadrus on Vinagre Remote Desktop Viewer

A fast and reliable remote desktop  
Written by DawnLight the 28 Apr 09 at 17:49. New
Dear friends,

I think that Ubuntu should implement a remote desktop application which can be used over networks as slow as dial-up internet connections.

This application should be reliable and easy to use.

Many are the uses for a remote desktop and include helping family, friends and co-workers, providing commercial technical support and helping out users in IRC.

Vino and Vinagre are included in the default desktop installation but Vinagre is unable to reduce the image quality as a trade-off to increase speed. This is reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203782 . This makes it unusable even for broadband users because it requires too much upload bandwidth.

VNC clients other than Vinagre can't connect to Vino. This is reported as https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369181 . UPDATE: This isn't true. VNC clients CAN connect to Vino.

Many blessings.
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Solution #1: Improve Vinagre: add colour depth reduction feature
Written by DawnLight the 28 Apr 09 at 17:49.
I think that the easiest way to implement this idea would be to add the feature to Vinagre and perhaps Vino, if needed, that users could select a lower colour depth.
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Solution #2: Replace Vinagre with xvncviewer (or other alternative).
Written by Darwin Survivor the 29 Apr 09 at 19:47.
Vinagre may be easy to use, but from what I've seen, it is not very feature-full compared to many of it's competitors.

It may be easier to simply improve the UI of another application and use it instead.
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Solution #3: Replace Vinagre with Gnome-RDP
Written by jsilve1 the 1 May 09 at 16:35.
Not sure if development on this tool continues, but even the 2-year-old version of Gnome-RDP allows you to tweak compression settings, connect via RDP, VNC, or SSH, save profiles, and a LOT of other things that are not really there in Vinagre.
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Solution #4: TSCLIENT + NAT to NAT development (user/password)
Written by glococo the 4 May 09 at 09:55.
One usefull feature is NAT to NAT ( http://www.uvnc.com/addons/nat2nat.html ) like ultraVNC.

It is INCREDIBLE USEFULL, easy to connect to a PCs behind ROUTERS without opening ports.
For example, this tool is very very important to remote help people and teach. I use this tool everyday.
I found a similar tool at www.echogent.com but is not complete free.
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Solution #5: xrdp
Written by razor7 the 5 May 09 at 04:08.
Improve the development of xrdp server
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Solution #6: FreeNX by default
Written by razor7 the 3 Oct 09 at 02:18.
Add FreeNX as a default remote desktop...It's great, with clients available for windows and linux
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Solution #7: Replace default VNC/RDP with Remmina
Written by snadrus the 22 Sep 10 at 17:03.
It beats most of these suggestions head-to-head for performance:
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/7-of-the-best-linux-remote- desktop-clients-716346?
It's in the repos already and works well for my experience with VNC and RDP. It has 5 protocols already including remote X and "over SSH" options for most protocols.

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