On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:28:02PM +0100, Greg Matthews wrote:
> James Davis wrote:
>> If it's the persistence you're looking for then NX might be what you're
>> looking for. I've not tried it myself but everyone has great things to
>> say about it (http://freenx.berlios.de/ ?)
>>
>> If it's simply a matter of keeping everything tidy in a single X window
>> then running everything through Xnest might be the tool you're looking
>> for (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnest).
>
> indeed - these are the two packages I'd have mentioned too. Xnest allows
> you to run a whole new X session inside a window and NX or FreeNX does
> fantastic things with compression and round-trip suppression to give very
> snappy response even over ADSL. I even used it over ISDN at it is quite
> usable.
Xephyr is the new hotness on this front: Xnest is a bit long in the
tooth & doesn't support extensions like RENDER IIRC.
You can just use Vnc if you want to share a unix desktop of course.
Phil
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