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I understand Trixie is frozen and that means in particular that packages
in sid but uninstallable and not in Trixie will not be in the release.
That include Xpra, a X11 server proxy where you do:
yes, xpra has been in bad shape for a while, but nobody seemed to care enough to fix it
I stopped tracking upstream for my own personal builds of Xpra a few months ago
(admittedly, I stopped pushing those updates to the MR long before that because of
lack of apparent interest).
I will have to warn anyone looking at it though: I stopped used Xpra because I'm
trying to move over to wayland, and the primary reason I used it was to "shadow"
existing desktops to provide "remote desktop" service calls to less technical users
needing help. Xpra doesn't (or at least did not) have a roadmap for that feature,
so I'm looking at krfb to that end. Given how easy the packaging is to maintain
now, I don't think that should stop anyone from giving it a go.
Maybe it is overkill for what you want, but you can use x2go to
have this kind of remote ressource usage for an entire desktop.
That include Xpra, a X11 server proxy where you do:
xpra --start-child=firefox --exit-with-children start ssh:ssecem:15
a[...]
Do anybody know another tool with the same features, still packages
for Trixie?
Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The distro that I have had in mind since ages. A Linux distro that acts as a
main box with a lot of little boxes inside. Each one is a vm with a
different OS (FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD and so on). And Xpra installed on each virtual machine / distro. And in the main distro,using Xpra you can call
all the different commands and applications that belong to each distro. Something like this :
Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the great thing about Xpra: like the good old remote X11, but fast and detachable.
Exactly. A whole new Linux distro can be made following your approach. The distro that I have had in mind since ages. A Linux distro that acts as a
main box with a lot of little boxes inside. Each one is a vm with a
different OS (FreeBSD,NetBSD,OpenBSD and so on). And Xpra installed on each virtual machine / distro. And in the main distro,using Xpra you can call
all the different commands and applications that belong to each distro.
Frank Guthausen (HE12025-04-25):
Maybe it is overkill for what you want, but you can use x2go to
have this kind of remote ressource usage for an entire desktop.
Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the great thing about Xpra: like good old remote X11, but fast and
detachable.
x2go isn't limited to full desktop, one can set it up to run one app or
what it calls "published apps" which basically means those remote gui
apps with .desktop files. I haven't used it much recently though.
What about wayland ?
whats the advantage of using xpra over this command : ssh mark "DISPLAY=:0 nohup firefox"
local server, just like forwarded X11 / ssh -X, except it is responsive >>>> even over laggy ADSL links and you can detach the window from the local >>>> display and reattach it to another.
Xpra would bring you the ability to detach apps on a per-VM basis
Usually I check after that someone gave me some general idea.
I think i can detach an application with ssh and a proper parameter.
This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use
everyday) :
https://winswitch.org/dev/
This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use everyday) :
https://winswitch.org/dev/