Oh man, thanks for the tip! Works wonderfully. I just apt-get'ed synaptic and it seems totally functional :) Xemacs and Angband don't work, but the fact that so much works already bodes pretty well for the future.

Wait, someone still uses Xemacs? I think you're the first I've run across in a long while.

I currently don't have access to a Windows box, but am currently working on a CLI app in Swift for OSX and Linux. It would be interesting to see if this effectively makes swift cross-platform "for free".

yay! \o/

can you check what happens after you wake from sleep/hibernation? are those apps still fully functioning?

I did not try GUI stuff, but when my tablet went to sleep while executing a long-running command, when I returned to the bash shell, the command failed with a message stating "interrupted syscall" or the like. Not sure if this is the common/intended behaviour.

This frankenstein contraptions isn't going to work correctly until they add so much bloat it's not even worth it.

Love it

Can you please test graphics with LLVMPipe?

I'm using xming as well.

glxinfo reports

  OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
  OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256  bits)
  OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
  OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

glxgears works for about a second, then crashes:

  XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X  server "localhost:0.0"
         after 732 requests (732 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

When i run it from strace, it keeps running.

Thanks! It's great that it's works.