[TriLUG] attaching to remote X session (_not_ VNC)

[Kevin Hunter Kesling]

At 6:59pm -0500 Mon, 02 Dec 2013, Aaron Joyner wrote:
> Awesome question!  Check out xpra, a modern successor to xmove, as
> described here:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/27843/redirect-existing-windows-via-ssh-and-x11-forwarding
>
> I found it by searching for "X11 tee redirect" (because "X11 tee"
> was all about shirts, and I couldn't remember the correct name of
> xmove).

/Thank you/ for the thought process of the search terms you used.  I 
appreciate seeing how else I might have solved the problem rather than 
"just the answer".

> http://xpra.org
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpra
>
> I realize this violates the spirit of one of your constraints, that you
> have to think of it in advance, but hopefully like screen (or tmux), if
> it's useful enough to you it's just a permanent workflow change rather than
> something you wished you'd setup occasionally.

Excellent!  Sometimes beggars cannot be choosers.  It's not ideal to 
what I thought I was looking for (and would still be very useful, 
methinks), but this certainly looks like something around which I could 
wrap my head.  I'm diving in now ...

Thanks for the pointer!

Kevin