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by mhitza 1549 days ago
Thin clients are back on the menu.

I wanted to transition to this development model a year ago, but unfortunately X11 forwarding was slow on mobile connections, and as far as I'm aware (if you know a workaround let me know), on Linux, RDP can't be made to just share a single app, only full desktop sessions.
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sz4kerto 1549 days ago
We experimented with X forwarding, but it worked well only on e.g. local networks. Some people still ended up using X forwarding, but JB Gateway or VSC Remote is in a different league.

We have also tried Jetbrains Projector, which is basically a different rendering engine for Java Swing. A remote IDEA instance was rendering the UI through HTML, i.e. you could develop in a browser. It worked relatively well, but there were some issues around copy/paste, etc.

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rerx 1549 days ago
> It worked relatively well, but there were some issues around copy/paste, etc.

They have an electron-based client that improves on some of these issues that stem from running inside a browser:

https://jetbrains.github.io/projector-client/mkdocs/latest/i...

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Yeroc 1549 days ago
The only thing I've found to be half-ways usable is x2go. With it you can have a rootless window session. I still end up using VS Code Remote development tools a lot though.
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beecafe 1549 days ago
Try Xpra, it's like X11 forwarding but much snappier.
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