[wellylug] X-Windows Display

David Antliff david.antliff at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 22:20:03 NZDT 2006


Andrew McClure wrote:
> What I'd like to do is be able to start an X-Windows app. on start up, 
> and send it to a null, or terminal display, then subsequently login 
> remotely and capture its window via an X-Windows terminal client - 
> perhaps relinquishing it again, but not closing the app.

Your request is quite common and often called something like 'screen for 
X' in many forums.

Something called 'xnest' that supposedly does this, although it's old 
and unmaintained. Good luck if you try to get it to work - I never had 
much success.

As Ewen said, there's the VNC solutions too, as well as NoMachine.

-- 
David.




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