Ah, you want to connect to existing running apps. Generally speaking, the workflows I try to use center around sharing data between hosts. The tabs in your web

Ah, you want to connect to existing running apps. Generally speaking, the workflows I try to use center around sharing data between hosts. The tabs in your web browser should be in your history and that's synced between your systems, etc etc. Regarding rehoming X apps, X can do that with tools like xmove. I haven't ever really bothered to use them because I have no use for that use case, but I do know they exist. I've always used screen for re-attaching terminals. Batch jobs and background computations are generally logging to files which I can check or interact with from anywhere. That sort of stuff isn't ever connected to a graphical interface in my experience. The benefit of remote display was, I think, more clear back when there was a greater diversity between systems. I would quite often run graphical tools unique to one unix on the my own system which was fundamentally incompatible (system-wise, cpu arch-wise, etc). Nowadays it's probably all x86 linux, so who cares, right?