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cplusplus

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Registered: 2014-08-02

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[Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

I'm looking for an app for android to remote control (keyboard and mouse input) my linux box.

I've been searching for quite some time and have found quite a few apps that claim to do just this. However, each one comes with a server.jar file and when i run it in my xinitrc, it doesn't actually seem to start the server.

I have sshd running, and xrdp, but would like to have a way to control the box directly. I've looked into xautomation, but would prefer not to have to write my own android app for this task.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by cplusplus (2014-08-09 23:22:52)

Soukyuu

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

I'm currently using vnc to control my arch server. Client side I either use ultravnc on my windows box, or realVNC on android

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cplusplus

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

I've used vnc, but have some pretty awful latency issues with it. I think it'd be a decent solution if I'm not home, but, i was hoping for a more direct solution over the local network.

Unless somebody has tips or a decent up to date guide to configure vncserver or x11vnc to function faster server-side.

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

Dropbear is a good ssh client.  You could horse a ssh session around to allow it to control an X session on the host.  Mouse operations, OTOH, I've no suggestions.

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Slithery

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

Have you tried launching the jar file after your WM/DE has started instead of from your ~/.xinitrc?

It may just be that the jar file is trying to start before X is fully loaded.

Last edited by Slithery (2014-08-09 18:44:53)

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cplusplus

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

I've decided to give X2Go a shot. It works better than vnc when connected to a local desktop. I have yet to get it to work starting a new session with gnome3 though.

cplusplus

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Re: [Solved]Android Remote for Linux?

Switched to XFCE4. Problem solved!