xpra

I've always found tabs to be pretty limiting, though I have a ton of them in Firefox and Konsole since that's what's - been - available. They're marginal improvement over multiple windows. Then Horizon[0] came on the scene a few weeks ago and I fell in love with that infinite canvas. Started tweaking it like crazy, but now I'm working on a full port that natively supports Xpra[1], so I can have all my apps on an infinite canvas with views grouped exactly as I prefer. And that's the future IMO. [0] https://github.com/peters/horizon [1] https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/

Run desktop browser via xpra[0], connect. Problem solved. [0] https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/

Apart from the SSH connection? The short answer is (probably) very little, the long answer is more complicated: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/master/docs/Usage/Secu...

You're making it way more complicated than it should be. Just edit the defaults in `/etc/xpra/conf.d/40_client.conf`: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/eedf34ecef3a04d0867709... (or your personal defaults in `~/.config/xpra`)

Update: I've been playing around with Xpra, and it's pretty nice. What a pleasant change compared to VNC hell! https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra

FWIW I had decent success with Xpra on Linux, and it's still being actively developed, e.g. the HTML5 client is considered stable now: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/

I use xpra for similar purposes (https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/) > Xpra is known as "screen for X" : its seamless mode allows you to run X11 programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to disconnect from these programs and reconnect from the same or another machine(s), without losing any state. Effectively giving you remote access to individual graphical applications. It can also be used to access existing desktop sessions and start remote desktop sessions.

I want to move to the "future", but I use several firefox profiles via xpra in combination with xdotool based hotkeys. The fluidity with which I can control my different profile windows without a mouse and with which I can switch between computers with no lag with this setup is a big reason why I have stuck with a Linux desktop, so I am sad to see those super powers go away for no perceived benefit. I have tried Wayland several times now and don't notice any performance differences, just more bugs in Wayland. `xdotool search` seems like it has been deemed a security issue for reasons I can't understand (if someone has hacked in to the point that they can even run such query commands, surely I'm already pwn'd). Maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but to me it's like being upset that someone who broke into your house can see the color of your cur

I've long been a huge fan of Xpra https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra , both because of its "screen for X" original focus (though now it supports shadowing an existing session). There was NoMachine / nx / freenx but it always seemed to be a weird animal to me, requiring installation as a separate unix user, at least at the time.

I think Xpra might work? It's basically like screen/tmux for X. You start an app with Xpra and it creates an X session. You can attach to that locally or remotely (eg over ssh). https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/blob/master/docs/Usage/READ... That contains some examples of how it can be used. I don't use it much, and I don't know if there are simply GUIs to make it easy to use.