Hagar Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Most people here will be familiar with screen, which allows you to run cli apps and disconnect the terminal, only to reconnect later & have the app running in the meantime.. Is there any way to do this with GUI X11 apps? I run X11 apps from my slackware box by ssh'ing in with the -X switch & launching the apps from the command line, thus getting the app displayed on my OS X desktop. What I want to do is run such programs, and be able to disconnect them and shut off my os x machine overnight, only to reconnect to them next day and carry on where I left off, with the app running "headless" all night. anyone know if this is possible, and if so how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokalan Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 The application you're looking for is called xmove. enjoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thanks, I was going to update this, after finding this page, which lists xmove as well as xmx & guievict. I wasn't aware that xmove was available in ubuntu though, most of what I've found seems fairly old & dusty, and only partly suited to the task. I'm also having difficulty finding a valid homepage for it, it seems like it's orphaned or unmaintained? as I understand it, these work by setting up a virtual root window and allowing you to connect & disconnect from that. Any personal experiences with this would be invaluable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigmaris Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thanks, I was going to update this, after finding this page, which lists xmove as well as xmx & guievict. I wasn't aware that xmove was available in ubuntu though, most of what I've found seems fairly old & dusty, and only partly suited to the task. I'm also having difficulty finding a valid homepage for it, it seems like it's orphaned or unmaintained? as I understand it, these work by setting up a virtual root window and allowing you to connect & disconnect from that. Any personal experiences with this would be invaluable. It's not exactly screen for X, but if you install Xvnc (the X VNC server) it can start a virtual X server which, instead of displaying on screen, is displayed to clients that connect via VNC. If you disconnect your VNC client, the virtual X server will keep running, and so will any X clients using it. Then you can reconnect with a VNC client later and resume whatever you left running. It's what I use for leaving X programs (KTorrent) running on my home server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokalan Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 well ... I checked the xmove. It's not amazing. sigmaris' idea sounds better ... and it will even work if there's a sudden drop of connectivity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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