Xpra

August 13 2018
101 words, ~1 min. read
xpra, X, display, linux, freebsd

Xpra is an open-source multi-platform persistent remote display server and client for forwarding applications and desktop screens.

Installation on Debian,

  $ sudo apt-get install xpra

Installation on CentOS,

# rpm --import https://winswitch.org/gpg.asc
# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# curl -O https://winswitch.org/downloads/CentOS/winswitch.repo
# yum install xpra

To start specific application, like firefox,

$ xpra start :100
$ export DISPLAY=:100
$ firefox &

To start a desktop session,

$ xpra start-desktop --start-child=xfce4-session :100

To start a session that can be accessed via HTML5 websocket,

$ xpra start --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:9876 --html=on --start-child=xterm

To attach to an existing Xpra DISPLAY,

$ xpra attach :100
$ xpra attach ssh:<host>:100