Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> writes: > mick crane (12020-12-17): >> please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. >> It is convenient to have the one display and keyboard/mouse >> I sometimes if on windows use putty/Xming to start GUI program on other >> Debian PC. >> Think I used screen before so can attach/detach from running terminal >> program but with X display program is it possible to first export to other >> machine then detach and come back to it later on other machine ? >> There was VNC, is that the way to do that ? > > xpra is probably the program you are looking for.
Does xpra work for reattaching? I've tried it briefly but I don't really understand how you're supposed to use it. The docs and examples cover only very basic usage. For me the expected usage would be like this: 1. start program x at machine y from machine z and at some point detach. 2. reattach to program x still running at machine y from machine w. This should be independent of hardware and software differences between machines z and w. Some tolerance for different versions of xpra would be good too. I've used x2go for years but reattaching works rarely. With VNC it works always but I wanted something better due to some protocol limitation. I don't really need the reattaching that much currently which is why I've stuck with x2go at home for my headless machines.
