[Gllug] X Window Proxy

[Iain Conochie]

Henrik Bilar wrote:
> Hey Iain,
>
> Long time no see!
>   

Hey hey. Good to hear from you

> I'd be interested in something like this also. The best I've come up with
> so far is VNC, but sadly performance is a bit lacking :-(
>   

yeah. I suppose for a local network may not be too bad; however I do 
note that when I have tried VNC in the past the server uses an 
horrendous amount of CPU.

> Essentially, what we need is something that is an X-server, but doesn't
> display to a real display but rather provides output over a network socket
> that a client can connect to, isn't it? Anyone know of a server that does
> that?
>   

That is prety much it.

Cheers

Iain

>
> /Henrik
>
>
>
>   
>> Afternoon,
>>
>>     Does anyone know of software that can proxy an X window session?
>> What I want to be able to do is start an X session on a remote machine,
>> but via a proxy so that when i shutdown or change the _client_ machine I
>> can keep the same session running and connect again.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Iain
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