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And while we're at it, if you need remote X, consider Xpra instead of ssh -X - it's way faster, can survive connection drops, and is far more flexible.
by Piskvorrr 6y ago
And while we're at it, if you need remote X, consider Xpra instead of ssh -X - it's way faster, can survive connection drops, and is far more flexible.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI've not heard of that, is it like VNC?
- Piskvorrr 6y agoThe best metaphor is "tmux for X programs": the X server runs on the same host as the X programs, xpra then "forwards" the windows over a configurable transport (e.g. via SSH) to the client. X was IIRC intended for local networks, so forwarding it over the Internet is sloooow (both by verbose protocol and naive latency handling) - this takes care of both issues. IIRC it's written in Python, so it runs in most places: https://xpra.org/ https://xpra.org/