[wellylug] Remote X11 Screen attach/detach like thing

[Martin Bähr]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:33:20PM -0700, 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?

take a look at vnc, xmove, and guievict
( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zandy/guievict/ )
there is also xmx, but that is more for classrooms.

there might also be a way with xvfb.
xnest won't help you i think.

greetings, martin.
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