On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:22:44 +0000 (GMT) "G.W. Haywood" <debian-b...@jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi there, > > On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, rhkramer wrote: > > > (Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I > > "run" the laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers > > connected to it has no HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has > > no HDMI input.) > > > > I get the idea (or I am jumping to the conclusion?) that there > > is some hardware in the docking station (like graphics and audio > > chips) which I'm assuming would need to be supported by Buster. > > > > Is that correct? > > > > Any recommendations for a suitable docking station? > > If I understand your use case I shouldn't have thought it's necessary > to buy any kind of docking station - and indeed there's no need to use > a KVM switch either. > > Look into using remote X sessions. For example I'm running X on this > Raspberry Pi on my desk. The CPU in the Pi is rather feeble compared > to the i7 in one of my laptops, and so I use the laptop for some heavy > processing but most of the time I don't need it. I keep it in another > building on the site, where I sometimes do need it. The buildings are > all connected via Ethernet. The laptop permits the Pi to connect to > its X display. Using 'xvncviewer' running on the Pi, a window on the > screen connected to the Pi shows the display on the laptop screen, and > xvncviewer also connects the keyboard and pointing device as well. So > I can drive the laptop from my desk just like the laptop is on my > desk. Of course you'd probably do things a bit differently but the > principles are similar. There are several ways of doing it, and there > are several viewers like xvncviewer - I just happen to use that one > because I'm used to using it. > It can actually be simpler than that: you can directly run applications on the remote machine using X forwarding, and a window will pop up on your client machine, no need for a viewer. In the past, using Cygwin, I've had Linux application windows open on a Windows client, again no explicit viewer involved, just X forwarded over ssh, in this case using PuTTY. Windows 10 now (finally) has a native ssh client. -- Joe
