Comment by remram
1 year ago
> leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there
What could be going on when you're not home?
If this is meant as a security tool, the fact you have to look at it is a non-starter.
If this is meant as anything else, why wouldn't you use VNC?
VNC doesn't even share your screen, it creates its own offscreen screen and doesn't even load your desktop, and uses some unusable minimalist window manager with a stupid X cursor. Yeah I could probably figure out how to get it to work but it's a chore. Terrible product design.
I've been wanting to create something WebRTC based, I'm not happy with either VNC or RDP.
On Windows, you do share the screen. I haven't seen any VNC servers that give you a new session like Terminal Services would.
On Linux, I've used both kinds of VNC server. One does start a new X instance, while the other one shares your main X instance. At the time I tried it, it was "TightVNCServer" to get a new X instance, and "X11vnc" to share the existing session.
TigerVNC x0vncserver[0] is just one option for ezpz sharing your existing X session.
Couple it with novnc if you want it in the web browser. Currently WebSockets but WebCodecs support looks to be around the corner[1].
> Terrible product design.
Which "product" are you even talking about here? VNC is a protocol with several different implementations.
[0]: https://tigervnc.org/doc/x0vncserver.html
[1]: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/pull/1876