I'm currently running Ubuntu 15.10 on my home-theater and I'm frequently using Remmina Remote Desktop Client to manage the box. Since the home-theater is frequently in use playing it's video duties, it would be immensely helpful to remote desktop into a separate session than the current - since it's playing full screen video for the family and VNCing in and tinkering with stuff would be incredibly distracting for those watching videos.
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I think we were working too hard.
When I ssh into a machine I enable X forwarding with the -X
flag.
ssh -X [email protected]
Then from the terminal I call the application, thunar
(or nautilus), sudo thunar
, sudo gdebi-gtk
, etc.
This only renders the application interface on your machine, and you will not see a full 'desktop' of another instance, but the host computer will continue to function without interrupting the video to your TV.
See if that will be suitable for you.
startx -- :1
, I'm looking for way to find it on a LAN.