Recommendations for how to watch Linux desktop from remote Windows?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:29 AM, wrote:

Quick question (I think...):

Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?

My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my
desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is
Debian using i3wm.

Would skype do the trick? I have no experience with it. I have a pretty
low bandwidth connection...

We don't need video, or audio for that matter, since we could do this
while on the phone, if that makes it work faster.

I'm sure he doesn't want to have to load anything too complicated or
intrusive on his Windows machine...

Thanks,
Keith Ostertag

Have you tried teamviewer ?


<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:29 AM, <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:"></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Quick question (I think...):<br>
<br>
Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will<br>
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?<br>
<br>
My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my<br>
desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is<br>
Debian using i3wm.<br>
<br>
Would skype do the trick? I have no experience with it. I have a pretty<br>
low bandwidth connection...<br>
<br>
We don&#39;t need video, or audio for that matter, since we could do this<br>
while on the phone, if that makes it work faster.<br>
<br>
I&#39;m sure he doesn&#39;t want to have to load anything too complicated or<br>
intrusive on his Windows machine...<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Keith Ostertag<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br></blockquote><div><br>Have you tried teamviewer ? <br></div></div>



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On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, wrote:

Quick question (I think...):

Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?

<snip>
I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is far
faster than any other method I've seen. Good luck - John


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On Vi, 17 feb 12, 10:59:40, wrote:

My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my
desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is
Debian using i3wm.

x11vnc

Kind regards,
Andrei
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 02:47:53PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, wrote:
> Quick question (I think...):
>
> Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
> allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?
<snip>
I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is far
faster than any other method I've seen. Good luck - John

I have tried FreeNX in the past and found it to be very good. These
days I think I would try x2go. If it as fast as FreeNX, you will be
happy.

-Rob


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On 02/17/2012 01:59 PM, wrote:

Quick question (I think...):

Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?

My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my
desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is
Debian using i3wm.

Would skype do the trick? I have no experience with it. I have a pretty
low bandwidth connection...

We don't need video, or audio for that matter, since we could do this
while on the phone, if that makes it work faster.

I'm sure he doesn't want to have to load anything too complicated or
intrusive on his Windows machine...

The synergy package for debian then get the windows version.

Works fine here for my desktop <> IBM-t40 laptop.

HTH

Wayne


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