X2Go provides remote graphical access to Linux systems using NX technology. It is designed to make a desktop or individual graphical applications available across a network while keeping bandwidth requirements substantially lower than conventional uncompressed remote X11 operation.
A defining feature is persistence. Users can disconnect from a session without terminating its applications and later resume the same working environment, including from another client. Session traffic is tunnelled through SSH, so X2Go can use the authentication and encryption infrastructure already available on the remote Linux host.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Provides complete remote Linux desktop sessions as well as individual published applications.
- Allows users to suspend a graphical session and reconnect later without closing running applications.
- Can resume an existing session from a different client computer.
- Transports remote sessions through SSH and supports public-key authentication.
- Uses NX compression techniques intended to keep interactive sessions responsive across slower network links.
- Forwards audio from the remote Linux system to the client.
- Supports sharing client-side files and folders with the remote session.
- Can make client-side printers available to applications running in the X2Go session.
- Provides desktop sharing for viewing or assisting with an existing graphical session.
- Supports SSH proxy connections where the X2Go server cannot be reached directly.
- Allows multiple users to maintain separate sessions on the same server, subject to available system resources.
Website: wiki.x2go.org
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Developer: Hein-M. Graesing
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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