Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 20 Apr 2015 21:42:25 Peter Merchant wrote: > On 18/04/15 16:58, Terry Coles wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I retired on Friday :-) > > How long before we see you at Stewarts Broomhill between 9 and 10 > enjoying the 2for1 coffee and reading the papers? I don't like coffee much. > There's more

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 20 Apr 2015 16:44:27 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Terry, > > > No matter; I'm satisfied that it works well enough to try things out > > and I can use SCP and plain ol' network browsing to exchange files if > > need be. > > Did you see > https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-acc

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > No matter; I'm satisfied that it works well enough to try things out > and I can use SCP and plain ol' network browsing to exchange files if > need be. Did you see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/vnc/ ? Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 20 Apr 2015 13:14:47 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other > than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing about > RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing > primitives and

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
That's possibly true. The machine I connect in to normally uses dwm, but I've never got that working. I tend to install and use LXDE for remote sessions. That seems to work fine. On 20 April 2015 at 14:22, TimA wrote: > Hi John > > On 20/04/15 13:14, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > >> Using the RDP

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread TimA
Hi John On 20/04/15 13:14, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing about RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing primitives and instructi

Re: [Dorset] Remote Desktop to a Raspberry Pi

2015-04-20 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Using the RDP server on Linux doesn't really gain you much over VNC (other than making it easier for Windows clients to connect). The best thing about RDP on Windows is that it hooks the graphics layer to send drawing primitives and instructions instead of just updating rectangles of pixels, which