"Honestly I never use remote X. It's just too clunky" Why not try to fix it? This isn't the fault of network transparency or even the X11 protocol, but the too

"Honestly I never use remote X. It's just too clunky" Why not try to fix it? This isn't the fault of network transparency or even the X11 protocol, but the tools. "oops, lost the network connection for a minute? crap, there goes the entire app" How is that different from losing your SSH connection? There's a screen-like program for X that gives you persistent applications: http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra http://code.google.com/p/partiwm/wiki/xpra