EMACS (remote GUI apps)

[Matt Graham]

From: gk <gm5729 at gmail.com>
[snip]
> I'm wondering [if a GUI Emacs can] be backgrounded like Screen or
> Tmux and then reattached if something needs to be done remotely.

Sort of, but it's not great in most circumstances.  If you can deal with
having 2 X servers allow TCP, and compiling and running xmove, you can take an
X app using the Display of one box, then move it to the Display of another
box.  The downside is that graphics performance slows to a crawl for just
about everything, especially programs using GTK for some reason.

Running a VNC server like TightVNC is a bit faster, and is better for many
uses since you don't need X and all its baggage, just a VNC client, which is
available for many platforms.  It's still slower than I'd like, and you can
get odd problems like keys getting stuckkkkkkk.

The fastest remote-access GUI I've used across a slow link is NXServer and
NXClient.  This is not Free speech, but it's free beer.  If you really need it
to be fast and accessible from anywhere, though, screen plus your favorite
console editor is still the best choice.

Comments, suggestions, and flying attack porcupines welcome.

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