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On 2022-03-22, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 3/22/22 10:41 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> How does one run "modern" X11 apps remotely? |
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> Xvnc |
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> As in run an Xvnc server as an X11 server / display. Point your |
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> programs at that display / server. Then have a VNC client connect to |
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> said VNC server. |
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I've used VNC in the past, and always ended up with a virtual |
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desktop/screen rather than having a remote application show up in a |
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window. |
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>> I do not want a "remote desktop". I just want to run a single |
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>> application on a remote machine and have its window show up locally. |
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> You can adjust the size of the Xvnc's display so that it's the size of |
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> just the application in question. You also don't need the full desktop |
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> to display on that screen. |
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OK, I've done that, but it's a little awkward to have to constantly |
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adjust the Xvnc display to match the application window size. It |
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appears that Xpra can handle that automatically. |
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>> X11 transparent network support was its killer feature, |
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> I completely agree. Especially when you start running different |
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> programs on different systems / users / contexts. |
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>> but for all practical purpopses, that feature seems to have been |
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>> killed. |
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> I don't think that's true. |
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Of course it depends on which X11 apps you need to run remotely. For |
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everything I've needed to run remotely in the past decade or so, it |
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was unusable. |
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The path to my remote host is also rather ugly. It jumps most of the |
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way across the county and back through at least two NAT |
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firewalls. Though the ping time is actually pretty decent (15-20ms) |
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for the path it has to take. |
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Grant |
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