Is there something like tmux for X11?

Maxim V FIlimonov che at bein.link
Sun Nov 30 02:46:37 UTC 2014


On Sunday 30 November 2014 01:22:14 Christian Baer wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Somehow I can't imagine that noone has thought of this yet. :-)
> 
> I don't want a complete howto here, just a push in the right direction. A
> link to some documentation would be fine.
> 

You might launch it using x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver in tmux, like:

% env DISPLAY=:99 Xvfb
% env DISPLAY=:99 firefox

And then connect to the X server launched in tmux via vnc.

-- 
wbr, Maxim Filimonov
che at bein.link


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