[dvlug] xfce settings question

[Don Smith]

I am using the proprietary chrome remote desktop. I feel better about it
then opening my own port as I, maybe misguidedly, trust them to do a little
security even via obfuscation. If there were a service that would reverse
tunnel for me with similar clients I'd probably use it. The issue seems to
be, however, in creating duplicate logins. I also had setup rdp sessions to
the same box and saw the same behavior. I'm wondering if it's a limitation
of xfce that I can't have 2 gui sessions going at the same time, or if it's
a setting. I've done the x tunneling but it's super slow.

Thanks again for the response Grant, and good to hear from you.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:23 PM Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure I follow completely. Do you mean the proprietary
> protocol "chromoting" https://remotedesktop.google.com ? There are other
> ways to share a desktop using open protocols like vnc. Depending on what
> you want to do an ssh session might work better with tunneling. A remote x
> session is more direct over some kind of connection. Unfortunately there's
> not enough information to understand the setup between the machines and
> other possible connection and usage limitations.
>
> Best wishes,
> Grant
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:50 AM Don Smith <dcsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I figured this might be the place to check. I use xfce with ubuntu
>> studio. I also use google chrome remote desktop. Unfortunately, and I
>> didn't have this when I was running ubuntu 16.04 with unity, I seem to be
>> able to only have 1 desktop session open at a time, so if i login to the
>> remote desktop it only works if i logout the desktop session. Is there a
>> way around this? I haven't looked too deeply but was wondering if anyone on
>> the list was very familiar with xfce to see if they understood how the
>> sessions work.
>>
>> Hope everyone is doing well, I will say even as an infrequent attendee I
>> do miss the in person meetups, and hope this whole madness blows over soon.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Don Smith
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