[Cialug] screen for X

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

Interesting. Just yesterday i was experimenting with x11vnc, which 
shares the X desktop that is displayed on the physical console. x11vnc 
doesn't seem to slow down the local display at all, but the remote 
connection is noticeably slower than a VNC session that has its own 
virtual desktop separate from the physical display.

Something that can be like VNC but at the app level might be very 
useful--when i'm working remotely there are really only 1 or 2 
graphical apps that i need. I only use VNC to emulate a full desktop 
because if i take the simpler path of tunneling X applications over 
SSH, the programs crash if the SSH session is interrupted.

On 2009-04-17 at 09:28:45, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>You know you've wanted it... http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra It's like
>VNC but for just one program. If you lose your connection you can
>reconnect and the app is still running the way you left it.
>
>I'm swamped and can't afford to do anything new until the end of next
>week. I'd love to hear how it works and wished for something like this
>for ages.

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