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Is anyone familiar with this? How does it compare with VNC or NX?
by dded 13y ago
Is anyone familiar with this? How does it compare with VNC or NX?
- kcbanner 13y agoThis is different. This is forwarding on the application level, not the entire screen.
- angerman 13y agoIsn't that what NX does as well?
- paol 13y agoYes. If you're already using NX there's nothing to see here.
- philsnow 13y agoNX has a "rootless" mode, and a "desktop" mode. xpra has only the "rootless" mode.
- amtota 13y agoThat's just not true anymore. You can get a desktop mode by running Xephir inside xpra.
- philsnow 13y agoBah now we're into semantics, but say you're running xpra on display :1. Running an Xnest or Xephyr inside that can't re-use the :1 display. Further, you can run multiple Xnests/Xephyrs inside an xpra session. I stand by my statement that xpra has only a "rootless" mode, but I will agree that with Xephyr (which is a less-sucky Xnest), there is less of a difference anymore.
- joeyo 13y agoIt may not matter to you, but xpra feels a lot more light-weight than NX. Installing/using xpra feels like tmux or ssh. NX feels like an enterprise software suite.
- dded 13y agoIt definitely matters. I've always struggled with NX. VNC is easier, but slower.
- chipaca 13y agoIt's a rootles VNC, and has more compression options. Haven't gotten it to work with webp yet, but x264 works very well for me; I usually can't tell if it's local or remote.