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Feature Request - IPv6 and Pure Server Mode
blgentry:
--- Quote from: thehammer86 on October 28, 2015, 08:43:06 am ---I've found X11 really buggy from the perspective of high performance video cards. Even the slightest modification to either the video card driver version and/or Linux kernel version seems to trip up X11 in my personal experience.
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I can believe that. But! VNC replaces the Display. So the video card is no longer involved. VNC essentially becomes the video card. So you shouldn't ever have a compatibility problem with respect to X being run over VNC. VNC should still work with X even with no video card installed in the machine at all. :)
--- Quote ---I hope JRiver considers making a Linux pure daemon as you suggest.
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I don't think it's super likely, but maybe they will do something to extend what they have in the ID? That's their appliance product that runs MC for Linux on an Intel NUC (in case you're not familiar).
Brian.
thehammer86:
I'm definitely going to give VNC a try for remote access to MC. I had been trialing the Windows and Linux versions of MC and in the end decided just to buy a master license. I also purchased the JRemote app for android and with the combination of my home VPN server who needs Apple, Google, Spotify etc. streaming services eh?
mwillems:
--- Quote from: blgentry on October 28, 2015, 08:57:28 am ---I can believe that. But! VNC replaces the Display. So the video card is no longer involved. VNC essentially becomes the video card. So you shouldn't ever have a compatibility problem with respect to X being run over VNC. VNC should still work with X even with no video card installed in the machine at all. :)
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This is 100% true as along as you use a VNC client that creates a virtual display (as I advised in another thread). You can use services that create a VNCserver that's dependent on a physical display which will allow access to native hardware (and hardware acceleration), which is an advantage from a usability perspective in my experience (hardware acceleration is nice). But if you use the normal VNC server config on ubuntu or debian you'll get a virtual display that is entirely divorced from the physical hardware (no acceleration, but also no compatibility issues, etc.).
--- Quote from: thehammer86 on October 28, 2015, 09:15:44 am ---I'm definitely going to give VNC a try for remote access to MC. I had been trialing the Windows and Linux versions of MC and in the end decided just to buy a master license. I also purchased the JRemote app for android and with the combination of my home VPN server who needs Apple, Google, Spotify etc. streaming services eh?
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Exactly. I've been streaming to my phone via Gizmo and a VPN for about a year now and it's the bee's knees.
imugli:
I used to be in the "I want a headless version" camp, but I find x2go running a MATE session (from Ubuntu desktop on another PC) works fine without placing undue stress on my server. Suspend the session when I'm not using it and MC stays open to serve everything to clients, gizmo etc.
I've come off headless server my soapbox now...
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