From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 02:16:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C24D651B for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B2D232F for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sAU2GDkr061942 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:16:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id sAU2GDpH061936; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:16:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:16:13 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Christian Baer Subject: Re: Is there something like tmux for X11? In-Reply-To: <3805113.juPtNthEKl@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> Message-ID: References: <3805113.juPtNthEKl@falbala.rz1.convenimus.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:16:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:16:15 -0000 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.