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Xpra mentions (27)

• Cool but Obscure X11 Apps

  One of my favorite bits of software is Xpra [0], "screen for X". You'd run it and it would start another X server (start apps in it with `DISPLAY=:1 xterm` or whatever), and you would "attach" it to your running X server with `xpra attach`. You can attach to e.g. `ssh://hostname/:1`, so I ran a firefox instance on a homelab server and attached to it from my laptop and my desktop to not have to bother keeping... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Alternatives To X2go?

  I’ve used Xpra in the past to connect to a remote system for GUI stuff, but I almost exclusively use ssh because most of the time I don’t need to run a remote windowing system. Source: about 1 year ago

• I want to (securely) remotely access my Pop!_OS desktop from my Pop!_OS laptop - what’s the best way to do this in 2023?

  To add to this if you need to access graphical applications of an entire desktop environment you can use Xpra or MOONLIGHT (I suggest the second one if you want to game on the remote desktop or need very low latency in general), you can use both of these through a ssh tunnel (you need to enable this and X forwarding in the config) so if you setup and allow access to ssh correctly you can also use these without too... Source: about 1 year ago

• It’s 2022, what good alternatives for Remote Desktop exists for Linux that can give decent frame rates and gpu acceleration?

  Xpra.org It has hardware acceleration (h264 encoding/decoding) for high framerates. Source: over 1 year ago

• Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots

  You might be able to do the screen recording today using Wayland ports, or nested display servers a la Xpra. https://xpra.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

mRemoteNG mentions (21)

• Ask HN: Alternative to Putty for Multiple Sites?

  Been awhile since I had Windows as a daily driver for work, but years ago I used to use mRemoteNG https://mremoteng.org/. It was awesome, as I could bookmark SSH and RDP connections in one place, it also had tabs. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

• VNC / RDP Tool recommendation for non-technical folk

  Https://mremoteng.org Tools or options > Security> encrypt ur creds. Source: 11 months ago

• As a SysAdmin, what’s your favorite tool?

  mRemoteNG - My old boss let me go years without telling me about this perfect bit of software. Multi-tabbed connections manager that let's you use multiple connection methods! It's quite handy to have all the relevant connections all in a folder with everything ready to do. I even use it at home now! Source: 12 months ago

• Go To Software/Tools for Programmers

  One I haven't seen mentioned yet that I use quite a bit is mremote NG to keep track of remote systems and the logins for them. Pretty handy. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best Remote Desktop Software?

  If you have direct connection or VPN connection try using mRemoteNG Https://mremoteng.org/. Source: about 1 year ago