[wellylug] Remote X11 Screen attach/detach like thing

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jul 6 13:01:42 NZST 2004


On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Chris Targett wrote:

> Does anybody know if its possible to automatically (via rc scripts or a cronjob
> or somesuch) launch a X application on a remote pc without having an X desktop
> running, then when one wants to view the application attach to it remotely in an
> action akin to `screen -r` then un-attach from it, leaving the application
> untouched and still running remotely?

I think you can do this with programs like xnest and vnc? Not sure if that
fulfills your first requirement however (no X desktop running).

http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xnest.1.html

-- 
David.




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