How can I display back an entire desktop from a remote linux machine?
I have a box running Xfce on Arch. I have a box on the network running the new PopOS! with the COSMIC desktop.
I would like to start a second X server on the Arch machine, displaying a COSMIC desktop from the PopOS! machine.
Seems a shame to recycle these but I feel the chances of me ever doing low level #X11 GUI programming again is pretty much nonexistent ... #xwindows
Okay, I’ve tried half a dozen different searches, and can’t come close to what I’m looking for…
I want to build a virtual desktop environment in a Linux *server*, which is remote at a client site. (Not on a cloud server! Not in a VM!)
This server would connect to a cloud hosted VPN, then I’d connect to the same VPN from a tablet, and access a GUI desktop over VNC, so I can fire up a web browser / terminal and fix devices on their network…
The server’s screen should be a CLI login, so my work remains private.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
The open source fork of Xorg is being …
The open source fork of Xorg is being used far beyond Linux.
Source: XLibre on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NetBSD, & DragonFlyBSD
@jameshowell Thank you! It was weird thinking back to that. Do you remember the XFree86 server that was built to run in low memory situations? Was it called Xtiny or something? #xwindows #xfree86
One Open-source Project Daily
Macintosh-like Virtual Window Manager
https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm
#1ospd #opensource #x11 #window-manager #macintosh #x11-wm #xwindows #wm
Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301 #openbsd #cde #commondesktopenvironment #x #xwindows #desktop #retrocomputing #freesoftware #libresoftware #ports #packages
Looking back at #X11 and #NeWS at the old #Sun Microsystems:
“X Window System At 40” [2024], David Rosenthal (https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-window-system-at-40.html).
TearFree option backported to modesetting(4) driver https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250610065042 #openbsd #xenocara #modesetting #tearfree #xorg #xwindows #graphics #freesofware #libresoftware
More than you ever wanted to know about X on Windows.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XHGKKdyU2bE
#retrocomputing #retropc #xwindows #unix #linux #retrosoftware #computerhistory
In which ‘dudemanguy’ is much less grumpy about #Wayland:
“Reassessing Wayland” (https://dudemanguy.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-03-wayland-xorg-2/wayland-xorg-2.html).
Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/iwiwye/reassessing_wayland
To everyone their liking of Gnome, for me this system started to become unusable when they started to **remove** configurable features which is more than a decade and a half ago
So I haven't seen #Gnome for more than a decade and a half and I do not miss it at all
However their work is vital and crucial because the diversity is important for our desktop managers there obviously are a lot of people who still like the way it works
I now have to look for a current #fvwm #window #manager for my debian-based distribution.
The look of these #classic #widgets just triggered something really nice in the #nostalgic #realm
It was also nice to see the #sources of fvwm compile on that small computer witñch my friend had back then
#WindowManager #Linux #freeBSD #POSIX #openBSD #XWindows #programming
Came back to my office, my little #Linux Mint Laptop had secured the desktop after the screensaver fired off. So I’m looking at the login screen on #XWindows and I see the clock there, and an album cover from #Spotify. Hah! That's fucking slick AF. Spotify knows enough to hand Album Covers to loginwindow! These are the kinds of polish and refinement that impress. Bravo! It's little things, that you even tried… #infotech #today
I’m not a fan of #XWindows, but it has served #Unix well for 40(!) years:
“Window System X” [1984], Robert W. Scheifler (https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40731922
#X #Desktop #ProjectAthena #MIT #ComputerHistory #Graphics #ComputerGraphics #Announcement
