I noticed that the X11 desktop overlaps the Windows Desktop to the point that I cannot use Windows when running X Server.

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallbackĪnd in MobaXterm, enter ‘gnome-session-fallback’ instead of entering ‘gnome-session’ to start the session.

However you can get the classic desktop (which I don’t mind using) by installing gnome-session-fallback. I didn’t figure out how to get the unity launcher to display in the forwarded desktop. Unity launcher not displaying on forwarded desktop Enter Ubuntu’s machine IP and the user account on Ubuntu.

There is a free portable edition available. Ubuntu settingsĮdit /etc/ssh/ssh_config to have the following settingsĮdit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to have the following settingĭownload MobaXterm. Poking around I found that it is possible and this is how I was able to forward Linux X11 desktop to Windows. I had previously known that it’s possible to forward the Linux’s X11 (most prevalent windowing system in Linux world) session which essentially forwards the drawing operations like RDP but I had never done it and wasn’t sure if X11 session can be forwarded to Windows machine. Therefore I was obviously interested in a technology that can forward drawing operations like RDP instead of bitmap. I figured the reason for excellent performance from RDP is that RDP sends drawing operations to be performed whereas Teamviewer and VNC send the bitmap of the section of screen that has changed like the techniques used in Video compression.

However with these two tools, whenever I scroll through text, the text will blur for a moment before becoming clear and movement of mouse pointer isn’t very fluid, reminding me that I am working remotely. I had also tried various VNC software and Teamviewer for working remotely.

With RDP, it’s easy to forget that you are working remotely. I am very impressed with the quality of RDP sessions.

I regularly log into my desktop at work from home and for that I prefer to do VPN and use RDP (remote desktop protocol). Although the Ubuntu machine was lying beside my Windows machine, I was looking to use the Linux machine remotely from my Windows PC so I don’t have to switch mouse and keyboard.

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