Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderI've used xpra for about a year now, and I do recommend it if it seems like it would fill a need in your workflow. For me, I'm using it primarily as a way to run Pidgin (for Jabber and AIM, primarily) on my server that I can connect to from the various machines I use around the house; analogous to how I use irssi in screen for IRC. I also configured my screen instance to have a DISPLAY environment…
I do almost all my computing through Xpra these days. Being able to combine windows seamlessly from multiple VMs is a much more usable way to segregate workloads, and Xpra doesn't suffer from the same security (and increasingly compatibility) issues of X forwarding.
So it's like a 'screen' for X11? I tend to just use a VNC server for this, might have to give this a try next time. Although I would think for non *nix clients, VNC is more practical. EDIT: Wow, just read the title ... at least I understood what the thing does. -_-
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 257
- Total comments
- 50
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-14 | Xpra (Screen for X) | ZeroGravitas | 7 | 0 |
| 2014-01-15 | Xpra: Screen for XFirst breakout · Best thread | luu | 127 | 34 |
| 2014-12-15 | Xpra: Screen for X | pmoriarty | 3 | 1 |
| 2016-03-16 | Xpra: screen/tmux for X11 | g1n016399 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-06-05 | Xpra – “screen for X11” | willvarfar | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-11-23 | Xpra – multi-platform screen and application forwarding system | aruggirello | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-10-11 | Xpra: Multi-platform screen and application forwarding system for x11Latest 20+ point return | nateb2022 | 111 | 15 |