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Re:Xpra is screen for X applications by houseabsolute on Saturday September 04, 2010 @01:23PM (#1663008)
Hmm, this actually works just fine for me with only NX client. What advantage does Xpra bring to the table?
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Re:Xpra is screen for X applications by _delirium on Saturday September 04, 2010 @03:08PM (#1663199)
Or just Xpra, for that matter--- Xpra was written as a replacement for NX (http://lwn.net/Articles/343389/), and they have heavily overlapping functionality, so it seems odd to use both rather than picking one.
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Re:Xpra is screen for X applications by steve19 on Saturday September 04, 2010 @08:08PM (#1663704)
Does Xpra offer the same level of compression as NX?

NX is designed to work fast over low bandwidth connections.

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Re:Xpra is screen for X applications by StavrosK on Saturday September 04, 2010 @09:42PM (#1663823)
It doesn't look like it. If you need a remote desktop, NX is the way to go, in my opinion. However, I do use Xpra for long-running programs because I don't want to have a full-blown X server running all the time.
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