Virtual desktop client to replace the web browser?

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#1

I have set up Galaxy for the first time
on a remote virtual desktop at AWS
It seems to be working.
I am accessing it via Chrome on Windows.

I have several problems:

  1. The desktop size it, is there a way to stretch it to the whole window?
  2. Copy paste from Windows to the virtual desktop doesn’t work.
  3. I don’t think file transfer from Windows to the virtual desktop is possible.
  4. It seems to be laggy.

I wonder if there is a better client than Chrome (for windows), which could solve these problems?
What do other people use? I assume thousands of people use Galaxy at AWS, how do you guys access it? Is there a client for UNIX that works well and solves the above problems?

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#2

Not sure if I follow but still want to answer. You set-up galaxy on a server, think most people do it with just a commandline I assume you opened a command line in that desktop environment of your screenshot. When everthing is set up you can acces galaxy in your chrome browser by going to the ip adress of your AWS. So in your case if everything is set-up right you go to http://18.205.16.67:8080 in your browser. If you set up a production environment you can just go to http://18.205.16.67
So you should not open galaxy in that virtual desktop but on your own desktop. How you to that is another story, you need to make sure the server is accessible. Sometimes just by changing the ip adres in galaxy.yml to 0.0.0.0 can work. But like I said, that is another question and written in the manual as well.

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#3

It seems you have set up a genomic virtual lab image - your instance runs here: http://18.205.16.67/ and your Galaxy, which is a part of GVL image, is at http://18.205.16.67/galaxy.

There is no need for you to connect to the desktop of that server using VNC.

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#4

Thank you very much!

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