Ideas for X improvement.

[Antoine Martin]

On 05/28/2011 07:22 AM, Evgeny M. Zubok wrote:
> David Jackson <djackson452 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The client wouldnt have to be moved between servers at all, it could
>> be the same proxy server, the proxy server could then open up
>> connections to actual X servers and forward things to the real X
>> servers. The proxy would massage and rework data as necessary to trick
>> the X client and hide the fact it is being displayed to many X servers
>> and also keep the X servers in the dark about what is really going on
>> as well. This requires no protocol changes and no changes to the
>> clients or servers. There are already two or more codebases that this
>> has already been done on, one is something called Xmux, the other was
>> something called Xshare or something, and I am aware of a possible
>> third that was called XTV. None are actively developed at this time.
> 
> Look also at NoMachine NX technology:
> 
> http://www.nomachine.com/documents/getting-started.php
> 
> There are free NX server implementaitions: FreeNX [1] and NeatX
> [2]. Also look at the project x2go [3].
> 
> [1] http://freenx.berlios.de/
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/neatx/
> [3] http://www.x2go.org/
Since we are now listing server wrappers around NX, there is also
winswitch [4] and nomachine's propriatary server [5].
Winswitch handles NX as well as xpra and VNC (which were also discussed
elsewhere in this thread).

[4] http://winswitch.org/about/
[5] http://www.nomachine.com/