Is there something like tmux for X11?

[Warren Block]

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.