rdesktop to speed up laptop

[easoukenka]

Just a random thought I have a slow laptop and was thinking of running a separate x session and allowing my laptop also running kubuntu to connect to one of them on my home computer. It would be over home network so the connection would be fast and I figure my beast of home computer could do all the dirty work and the laptop would just be showing stuff.

What do you guys think is it worth all the work? Any tips to get this all setup separate x sessions best vnc program etc...

[monte48lowes]

Re: rdesktop to speed up laptop

ssh has the ability to run X11 over the network. I have run a full KDE session across the internet using only ssh to forward the session to my laptop. Here is a link to the ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=505541

To give the laptop as much power as possible, I stopped the KDE session running on the laptop by:

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

Then 'Ctrl-Alt-F1' to tty1 and connected to my desktop using ssh from the command line.

Then 'startkde' to start the session.

Mike

[easoukenka]

Re: rdesktop to speed up laptop

Did this speed it up alot? Wondering if it all is really worth it and thank you for the tip.

[monte48lowes]

Re: rdesktop to speed up laptop

Unfortunately I would not be a good test case for speed. The desktop is a P4 2.4GHz and the laptop is a Celeron 1.7Ghz.

Since it would be a simple test, you could try it and let us know.

Mike