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How to resume a SSH encrypted and x11 forwarded session
- philsnow 6y agoI've FUDded about needing to have exactly the same version on client and server in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493005 , but this blog post mentions installing from apt and from yum, so maybe the project has figured out back/forwards wire compatibility? That would be huge.
- MayeulC 6y agoFor what it's worth, I'm regularly using it between Arch Linux current and CentOS 7.5 (presumably older versions as well, I can't check right now, but I've been doing so for at least two years). I never thought backwards compatibility was an issue.
- MayeulC 6y agoXpra is pretty nice, though if you look at the details, it's more similar to vnc than it is to X11 forwarding. Compositing each window is done on the server, the image is then compressed (it can use png, jpeg, mpeg, webp, bmp and a lot more) and sent down, displayed as a child window of the xpra client, and composited on the client computer. The wayland equivalent is waypipe, though I am not sure it handles disconnections and graceful link quality as well. That said, I've often had to manually adjust the frame encoding format, to gain pixel-perfect accuracy at the cost of a few seconds of latency on a sloppy connection, for instance.
- pnutjam 6y agoI usually use x2go to accomplish this. It lets you do full desktop, or floating app windows. I might have to see how this compares, but x2go is in the EPEL repos for RedHat.
- alexeiz 6y agoThe Xpra latency is really good. It makes remoting XWindow GUI apps almost bearable.