Works with my original RPi, RPi2 and RPi3. I've been using the below method from the (now suspended) Xmodulo site to remote into my entire Raspberry Pi desktop from any Ubuntu machine. VNC isn't what I'm looking for for a whole bunch of reasons, not least because it's not X11 forwarding but forwarding bitmaps.Xephyr isn't what I'm looking for because it tries to run the remote desktop in a window.I'm looking to understand a little of the the anatomy (of xwindows?, wayland?, gdm?) to understand how you'd go about doing this, OR why it's not possible. Searches online come up with a bunch of third party tools such as VNC and Xephyr, or they come up with the single window ssh commands and config. I've always thought that it should be possible to shut down the desktop environment on my laptop and then from the command line ssh into another machine and startup an desktop environment forwarded to my laptop. But there are times when I'd like to use my linux laptop as a dumb terminal for another linux machine. I'm very familiar with forwarding individual windows using ssh -X. How can you or why can't you forward an entire desktop over SSH ( ssh -X)? Something that's always bugged me and I've been unable to find good information on:
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