Xpra is screen for X applications

http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra

by rwolf • 16 years ago

85 15 16 years ago

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nl• 16 years ago

Mmmm.. ec2 instance running X+Xpra+FreeNX Server, then NX on the client and you have your desktop anywhere.

(X on EC2: http://blog.decaresystems.ie/index.php/2007/05/23/amazon-web...)

(FreeNX: http://freenx.berlios.de/)

houseabsolute• 16 years ago

Hmm, this actually works just fine for me with only NX client. What advantage does Xpra bring to the table?

_delirium2• 16 years ago

Or just Xpra, for that matter--- Xpra was written as a replacement for NX (http://lwn.net/Articles/343389/), and they have heavily overlapping functionality, so it seems odd to use both rather than picking one.

mgunes• 16 years ago

Something similar, with Telepathy: http://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/134350.html

luu• 16 years ago

See http://shifter.devloop.org.uk/ if you want to connect to a *nix/BSD box from Windows with Xpra (cygwin doesn't have an Xpra package)

positr0nic• 16 years ago

How is this different from simply using NX?

signa11• 16 years ago

check the "What about NX?" at xpra-faq [ http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/source/browse/README.xpra ]

johnitsagal• 16 years ago

Wow is using NX without a commercial license really that painful? We use it at work amd it's great; much snappier than VNC.

Xpra sounds great but I'm concerned about the lack of support for various features, and -judgung from the FAQ- the author's perception that they're not important.

ScottBurson• 16 years ago

I use Xpra, but it's a little buggy. E.g., buttons don't always appear in the right position within a dialog. Sometimes it hangs up and I have to restart it. Some fairly complex apps don't like to run under it (I think I had this problem with IntelliJ IDEA, which also isn't entirely happy under VNC/twm). Also, running XEmacs under Xpra is a bit slow for some reason.

I use VNC day in and day out, and Xpra has not replaced VNC for me, though I originally thought it might. The rootless model is cool.

StavrosK3• 16 years ago

I used Xpra today to run a small console program on my headless server, and I attached to it from my laptop. It worked very well, until I changed my ssh port to some nonstandard one. Bye-bye, attach functionality...

Does anyone know of a way to specify the ssh port?

rwolf• 16 years ago

http://www.mail-archive.com/parti-discuss@partiwm.org/msg002... seems to indicate there is no current way to specify nonstandard ssh port.

StavrosK3• 16 years ago

Ah, too bad :/ Thanks for the info!

Xpra is screen for X applications

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