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You're not giving specifics, but both KDE and Gnome have their own RDP solutions built-in.
If using another DE, just check for solutions as there are many generic ones. I'd generally be looking for RDP solutions over CNC because of Wayland compatibility.aybe NoMachine is interesting to you.
If you want to forward just single windows, look into XWayland and SSH forwarding X apps.
If you're strictly speaking about console access, then SSH.
I want to sit at my windows machine with it's three monitors and move my mouse to a fourth monitor of a Linux machine. x2vnc was great for controlling multiple *nix boxes and win2vnc did exactly what I want to do now but it hasn't been updated for 5 years.
I don't know if it's still relevant, but I used to use Synergy to do this.
Yes, that looks like it. Account? WTF?
edit: dingdingding! This is the thing. it's called deskflow in apt
Thanks, drspod
Yea that's their new project they just "started funding". Synergy used to be open source and it went closed source 10? 15? years ago.
Since then several forks have existed. Most notably https://github.com/debauchee/barrier which died a few years ago and was forked to https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap which while getting plenty of updates, and merges from the other project.. never released a version for years. I think at that point synergy felt sorry for them and so they changed their repo name from synergy to deskflow https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow and now they have their open source version lol
I have to assume usage got so stagnant when close sourcing it (it's so insanely niche software, is it not?) that they felt the need to bring it alive again.
Right. From what I'm reading, those tools were simply VNC clients, so whichever method you choose above should work to serve the session, and you just need to match the protocol for your windows client. Tons of great RDP clients out there for the windows side.
Wait... so any RDP can just go across monitor boundaries like x2vnc used to? That would explain why development stopped. Do you know how I would make that happen? They used to have to make a 1px wide window at the edge of the screen that would magically transport the cursor to the other session. If you don't immediately know, it's cool I'll look into it.
Which desktop environment are you using?
gnome
Okay, so I just found a simple post with steps, so this is the basic setup.
Then you just find an RDP client on Windows that you like, move it to the monitor you want it on, and run it in fullscreen mode. Then you have a full desktop view on one of your monitors that is your remote Gnome desktop.
Thank you for your research but that's just regular RDP, /u/drspod told me the thing I'm actually looking for and it's called Synergy (deskflow is the FOSS component in apt). So, solved - until I can't make it work ;)