[HN Gopher] Xpra: Multi-platform screen and application forwardi...
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       Xpra: Multi-platform screen and application forwarding system for
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       Author : nateb2022
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2022-10-11 16:43 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | mfincham wrote:
       | I do almost all my computing through Xpra these days. Being able
       | to combine windows seamlessly from multiple VMs is a much more
       | usable way to segregate workloads, and Xpra doesn't suffer from
       | the same security (and increasingly compatibility) issues of X
       | forwarding.
        
         | alchemist1e9 wrote:
         | Same here. I wish I could do the same with a Windows VM and a
         | remote MacOS host.
         | 
         | Have you heard of any such solutions?
        
           | mfincham wrote:
           | There used to be a hack for getting integrated windows using
           | Remote Desktop, but I can't remember the name of it anymore
           | and Google isn't finding much :( Hopefully someone remembers
           | (and it's still maintained).
           | 
           | Edit: Found it: https://github.com/rdesktop/seamlessrdp.
           | Seems like there are probably more modern solutions now
           | though.
        
             | westurner wrote:
             | IIRC WinSwitch + xpra could do seamless windows:
             | http://winswitch.org/documentation/faq.html#protocols
             | http://winswitch.org/about/ :
             | 
             | > _Window Switch is a tool which allows you to display
             | running applications on other computers than the one you
             | start them on. Once an application has been started via a
             | winswitch server, it can be displayed on other machines
             | running winswitch client, as required._
             | 
             | > _You no longer need to save and send documents to move
             | them around, simply move the view of the application to the
             | machine where you need to access it._
             | 
             | Wikipedia/Neatx links to
             | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remmina (C) :
             | 
             | > _It supports the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC, NX,
             | XDMCP, SPICE, X2Go and SSH protocols and uses FreeRDP as
             | foundation._
             | 
             | But no xpra, for which Neatx has old python 2 scripts.
        
       | alchemist1e9 wrote:
       | We use Xpra extensively with linux as the server and all 3
       | clients, Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it works extremely well,
       | even in fairly latency and bandwidth challenged situations, like
       | an LTE link, and also across oceans.
       | 
       | Are there any seamless/floating equivalent systems for server
       | side being MacOS and Windows and client is Linux?
       | 
       | I've seen hints somewhere there is a seamless mode hidden in some
       | RDP servers and clients, which perhaps for windows to Linux might
       | work.
       | 
       | How about MacOS? any system, maybe even commercial than can
       | provide seamless windows to a remote Linux client?
        
         | silver-dragon wrote:
         | You can do windows seamless mode on linux with RDP. Use
         | RemoteApp Tool [0] to create the rdp file and then launch the
         | RDP file with XFreeRDP [1]
         | 
         | As an example here is an screen shot [2] of visual studio
         | running seamlessly in fedora on a sun workstation
         | 
         | [0]: http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool [1]:
         | https://www.freerdp.com/ [2]:
         | https://64.media.tumblr.com/966be79d7ba2cedfbdfcf48fed91cfee...
        
         | JonathonW wrote:
         | On the server side, Windows has RemoteApp to provide seamless
         | remoting of Windows applications. The official configuration
         | tools for it are only available on server editions of Windows,
         | but open-source tools exist to enable it for certain client
         | editions of Windows, such as [1].
         | 
         | The client side of this is built into Microsoft's RDP clients
         | for Windows and macOS; not sure if any of the Linux RDP clients
         | fully support it or not.
         | 
         | (Irrelevant fun fact: this is also how GUI applications work
         | under WSL, using an RDP backend for Wayland and the existing
         | RDP application remoting tools on Windows to provide seamless
         | windowing.)
         | 
         | As for seamless windows with macOS on the server side, I'm not
         | aware of anything doing that on any platform. It'd be really
         | nice to have, though-- so I'm all ears if anyone else knows of
         | anything.
         | 
         | [1] http://www.kimknight.net/remoteapptool
        
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