X equivalent of 'screen' utility

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00:00 X Equivalent Of 'Screen' Utility
00:40 Answer 1 Score 3
00:57 Answer 2 Score 2
01:16 Accepted Answer Score 8
01:25 Answer 4 Score 0
01:37 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 8

I am having success in using xpra

ANSWER 2

Score 3

Why not just use VNC?

So long as you don't log out (thus closing all your running applications etc) your system will stay in the exact same state no matter how many times you disconnect/reconnect.

ANSWER 3

Score 2

More a question for unix.stack but have a look at x11vnc. Things will work a bit differently, you won't be using ssh -X but use the VNC protocol. In shared mode, disconnecting VNC will not log out the X session.

ANSWER 4

Score 0

I use NoMachine at work and at home. It uses ssh. I happen to use the Windows client, but clients are available for Linux and Mac, too.