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Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2022-08-20 · latest 2026-10-06

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    Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, mac and Windows
    story by denysonique · 2026-10-06 · 0 comments
  2. …grouped exactly as I prefer. And that's the future IMO. [0] https://github.com/peters/horizon [1] https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/
    comment by skeledrew · 2026-04-29 · in Your terminal is burning battery like it's mining Bitcoin
  3. Run desktop browser via xpra[0], connect. Problem solved. [0] https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/
    comment by skeledrew · 2026-01-31 · in YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
  4. …SSH connection? The short answer is (probably) very little, the long answer is more complicated: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/master/docs/Usage/Secu...
    comment by totaam · 2024-07-12 · in Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11
  5. …more complicated than it should be. Just edit the defaults in `/etc/xpra/conf.d/40_client.conf`: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/eedf34ecef3a04d0867709... (or your personal defaults in `~/.config/xpra`)
    comment by totaam · 2024-07-12 · in Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11
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    Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11
    story by cl3misch · 2024-07-08 · 136 comments
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    XPRA
    story by mzs · 2024-05-09 · 1 comment
  8. …been playing around with Xpra, and it's pretty nice. What a pleasant change compared to VNC hell! https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra
    comment by metadat · 2024-04-12 · in Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?
  9. …on Linux, and it's still being actively developed, e.g. the HTML5 client is considered stable now: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/
    comment by lomereiter · 2024-04-11 · in Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?
  10. I use xpra for similar purposes ( https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/ ) > Xpra is known as "screen for X" : its seamless mode allows you to run X11 programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to…
    comment by timetraveller26 · 2024-03-29 · in Apache Guacamole: a clientless remote desktop gateway
  11. …these minor security concerns. And it looks like xpra is facing huge issues switching over https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/387 :(, I have yet to be as satisfied with any other free remote desktop software (paid nomachine is close…
    comment by greentea23 · 2023-12-19 · in Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
  12. I've long been a huge fan of Xpra https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra , both because of its "screen for X" original focus (though now it supports shadowing an existing session). There was NoMachine / nx / freenx but it always seemed to be a…
    comment by philsnow · 2023-09-28 · in FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
  13. …with Xpra and it creates an X session. You can attach to that locally or remotely (eg over ssh). https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/master/docs/Usage/READ... That contains some examples of how it can be used. I don't use it much, and I…
    comment by raffraffraff · 2022-08-20 · in Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?