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We use Xpra extensively with linux as the server and all 3 clients, Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it works extremely well, even in fairly latency and bandwidth

We use Xpra extensively with linux as the server and all 3 clients, Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it works extremely well, even in fairly latency and bandwidth challenged situations, like an LTE link, and also across oceans. Are there any seamless/floating equivalent systems for server side being MacOS and Windows and client is Linux? I’ve seen hints somewhere there is a seamless mode hidden in some RDP servers and clients, which perhaps for windows to Linux might work. How about MacOS? any system, maybe even commercial than can provide seamless windows to a remote Linux client?

JonathonW 4y ago
On the server side, Windows has RemoteApp to provide seamless remoting of Windows applications. The official configuration tools for it are only available on server editions of Windows, but open-source tools exist to enable it for certain client editions of Windows, such as [1]. The client side of this is built into Microsoft's RDP clients for Windows and macOS; not sure if any of the Linux RDP clients fully support it or not. (Irrelevant fun fact: this is also how GUI applications work under WSL, using an RDP backend for Wayland and the existing RDP application remoting tools on Windows to provide seamless windowing.) As for seamless windows with macOS on the server side, I'm not aware of anything doing that on any platform. It'd be really nice to have, though-- so I'm all ears if anyone else knows of anything. [1] http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool
- alchemist1e9 4y ago
  Possibly Parsec can do macOS as server and Linux as client. Somehow I have never heard of it. It’s commercial. https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-Feature-Matrix https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...
silver-dragon 4y ago
You can do windows seamless mode on linux with RDP. Use RemoteApp Tool [0] to create the rdp file and then launch the RDP file with XFreeRDP [1] As an example here is an screen shot [2] of visual studio running seamlessly in fedora on a sun workstation [0]: http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool [1]: https://www.freerdp.com/ https://www.freerdp.com/ [2]: https://64.media.tumblr.com/966be79d7ba2cedfbdfcf48fed91cfee/e7282a2052b19bfa-43/s1280x1920/ce0a23fbe7d0636d961deafffcddc7b626efed32.png https://64.media.tumblr.com/966be79d7ba2cedfbdfcf48fed91cfee...
- alchemist1e9 4y ago
  That’s really exciting for me. I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you very much. If there is a MacOS server that can do seamless to a Linux host then I could potentially put all my world into a single bspwm multi monitor linux desktop. Edit: Possibly this commercial product could work for accessing MacOS windows from Linux? anyone know? https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-Feature-Matrix https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...

JonathonW 4y ago

On the server side, Windows has RemoteApp to provide seamless remoting of Windows applications. The official configuration tools for it are only available on server editions of Windows, but open-source tools exist to enable it for certain client editions of Windows, such as [1]. The client side of this is built into Microsoft's RDP clients for Windows and macOS; not sure if any of the Linux RDP clients fully support it or not. (Irrelevant fun fact: this is also how GUI applications work under WSL, using an RDP backend for Wayland and the existing RDP application remoting tools on Windows to provide seamless windowing.) As for seamless windows with macOS on the server side, I'm not aware of anything doing that on any platform. It'd be really nice to have, though-- so I'm all ears if anyone else knows of anything. [1] http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool

alchemist1e9 4y ago
Possibly Parsec can do macOS as server and Linux as client. Somehow I have never heard of it. It’s commercial. https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-Feature-Matrix https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...

silver-dragon 4y ago

You can do windows seamless mode on linux with RDP. Use RemoteApp Tool [0] to create the rdp file and then launch the RDP file with XFreeRDP [1] As an example here is an screen shot [2] of visual studio running seamlessly in fedora on a sun workstation [0]: http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool [1]: https://www.freerdp.com/ https://www.freerdp.com/ [2]: https://64.media.tumblr.com/966be79d7ba2cedfbdfcf48fed91cfee/e7282a2052b19bfa-43/s1280x1920/ce0a23fbe7d0636d961deafffcddc7b626efed32.png https://64.media.tumblr.com/966be79d7ba2cedfbdfcf48fed91cfee...

alchemist1e9 4y ago
That’s really exciting for me. I can’t wait to try it out. Thank you very much. If there is a MacOS server that can do seamless to a Linux host then I could potentially put all my world into a single bspwm multi monitor linux desktop. Edit: Possibly this commercial product could work for accessing MacOS windows from Linux? anyone know? https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-Feature-Matrix https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4407194154253-F...