[dundee] Detaching from X11 forwarding sessions

James Le Cuirot chewi at aura-online.co.uk
Tue Jul 5 20:09:23 UTC 2011


On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 20:42:51 +0100
Nicholas Walker <tel0seh at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for a method to detatch from X11 forwarding sessions
> (over ssh) similar to the way you can detatch from an SSH session
> using screen and reconnect to the same session later.

I looked into this some time ago. You're on the right lines with Xpra
but I couldn't be arsed with it either. The only alternatives were
Xmove and guievict, both of which are ancient and don't work any more.
I'm hoping this will become more feasible when Wayland takes hold.

James



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