[SGVLUG] Virtual Desktops for Windows - maybe tightVNC

[Bryan Backer]

While it is not an answer to the original question,
I second Robert's suggestion of tightvnc to others
needing a remote access solution. I've found it
extremely handy at work as a means of using a 
linux desktop remotely.  

There have been times I've used it because
its interactive response over a distant VPN
connection for X displayed java based GUIs
was superior to setting the $DISPLAY back to my
home systems X display. In my case this tended
to be remote Linux systems displayed on my local
system displayed on cygwin X.


--- On Wed, 2/13/13, Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net> wrote:

> From: Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] Virtual Desktops for Windows - maybe tightVNC
> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 7:14 PM
> Maybe tightVNC?  ( http://www.tightvnc.com/ )
> 
> > Is there a linux-like virtual desktop utility for
> Windows 7 which
> > doesn't stink?  I'm stranded in Windows-land for
> one client.
> >
> > I've tried Dexpot and another free solution but they
> are both flakey -
> > windows pop up on the wrong desktop, windows fail to
> redraw, etc. I'm
> > willing to pay for a good commercial solution if
> required.
> >
> > I don't know how Windows people live without virtual
> desktops.  Yet
> > there they sit tabbing through about 100 open windows
> at a time.
> >
> > -braddock
> >
> >
> 
> 
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> 
> Robert Leyva
> mrflash818 at geophile.net
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