Xpra

screen for X

2013/08/22

Carl X. Su

screen is a full-screen window manager

that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

Xvfb is an X server that can run on

machines with no display hardware

and no physical input devices.

Xpra is 'screen for X': it allows you to run

X programs, usually on a remote host and

direct their display to your local machine.

Xpra works by connecting to an Xvfb server

as a compositing window manager.

Start an Xpra server

xpra start :100 --start-child=xterm

Attach to a session

xpra attach :100

Connect from remote

xpra attach ssh:user@host:100

Stop the server

xpra stop ssh:user@host:100

Winswitch is a front-end for xpra (and also VNC, NX, RDP, etc), it is available here: