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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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…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 -
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 -
…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 -
…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 -
…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? -
…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? -
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 -
…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 -
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 -
…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?