If the distro is new enough and you need to test this often then I would look at the x2go packages. That should make things actually usable across the DSL link.
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]>wrote: > One of the joys of Linux is that it isn't difficult to administer > a machine remotely. My wife has a machine in her office with an > older distro. Last night I ran updates and OpenOffice doesn't > work anymore. I seems that a support library went AWOL. > > Rather than fix that older version of OpenOffice, I accessed > her machine over an openvpn tunnel, installed a new version of > LibreOffice, replaced the startup icon on her desktop, then tested > it on a couple of test files over ssh and remote X. Kinda slow > accessing an X app when the link from her office is DSL, but faster > than driving down there, waiting for a break in her schedule, etc. > And a lot faster than bringing up a remote desktop, with mouse > animation trailing my movements by fractions of a minute. > > I also have nightly backups of her machine on my server here; > I will be replacing her office computer soon, and use those > backups on top of the latest distro to build the new machine. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
