Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:16:13 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Christian Baer <cb@icerats.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there something like tmux for X11? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411291915500.55672@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <3805113.juPtNthEKl@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <3805113.juPtNthEKl@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Christian Baer wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Sorry for the bad subject line, but I don't know how to express this in a > short way. This is probably also the reason why I have not found anything > useful using google and the like. > > To explain this, let's say I have two machines: acer and dell. Please excuse > the corny names. :-) acer is my workstation and dell is some big machine with > a lot of CPUs and RAM. When I log on to dell via ssh, I can start tmux or > screen and then start some application. The the connection is broken, or I > decide to turn my computer (acer) off, then dell will keep on running my app. > When I connect the next time, I can use tmux or screen to get control of the > app again and everything looks as though the connection was never lost. > > Is there some way to basicly do the same thing using X? I log on to dell again > using ssh -Y, start an app, get the display on my screen (on acer). But I can > logout and turn off acer without terminating the app on dell. I also want to > be able to pull the app back to my desktop the next time I log on. Untested by me, but see x11/xpra.
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