Xpra is screen for X applications(code.google.com)

85 pointsby rwolf16 tahun yang lalu15 comments

code.google.com

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

6 comments

nl16 tahun yang lalu

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/)

houseabsolute16 tahun yang lalu

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

_delirium16 tahun yang lalu

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.

steve1916 tahun yang lalu

Does Xpra offer the same level of compression as NX?

NX is designed to work fast over low bandwidth connections.

StavrosK16 tahun yang lalu

It doesn't look like it. If you need a remote desktop, NX is the way to go, in my opinion. However, I do use Xpra for long-running programs because I don't want to have a full-blown X server running all the time.

StavrosK16 tahun yang lalu

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?

rwolf16 tahun yang lalu

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg002... seems to indicate there is no current way to specify nonstandard ssh port.

StavrosK16 tahun yang lalu

Ah, too bad :/ Thanks for the info!

luu16 tahun yang lalu

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)

ScottBurson16 tahun yang lalu

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.

mgunes16 tahun yang lalu

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

positr0nic16 tahun yang lalu

How is this different from simply using NX?

signa1116 tahun yang lalu

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

johnitsagal16 tahun yang lalu

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.

_delirium16 tahun yang lalu

Yeah, the open-source version of NX isn't really ready to run; it's just a GPL'd library of the core functionality. The FreeNX project produced a working, distributable version (http://freenx.berlios.de/), but it seems to have lost steam--- no releases since 2008. There's also a reimplemented version from Google, though it's not actively developed anymore either: http://code.google.com/p/neatx/