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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:03 pm    Post subject: How can I leave GUI based processes remotely running? NX? Reply with quote

I have a need to remotely start and administer processes which are GUI based.

As I understand the NX documentation, I can either shut down my current nxclient and automatically close the nx session or I can leave my connection and then return later to the nx session where I left off.

What I want to do is leave my connection and allow the remote nx session processes to continue running.

For example:

Let's say I start an nx session {with kde} and I start ktorrent running. In this case, I'd like to set up a number of torrents to run, leave my connection with the remote host, then come back to it later to check on the status of the torrents.

As I noted above, the official documentation implies strongly that I can't do this.

Have I missed something? Is there a way to do this?

In the alternative for the above example, I could use something like 'screen' and start up an ncurses based bittorrent client. But that's not the direction I want to go.

Any advice?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You could start a normal X server then use x11vnc. It can be Xvfb if you don't have a video card attached.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's no problem to detach and reattach an nx session from the same or even different client.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to use a headless X server, then there is no reason to use Xvfb with the x11vnc module. Instead, run vncserver as provided by net-misc/tigervnc.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can use xpra if it is just one application, and not a whole desktop.
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