Xpra
Screen for X, persistent remote applications
Xpra is an open-source tool that runs remote X11 applications and full desktops, keeping them persistent and accessible from anywhere including via HTML5 in a browser. It is often called screen for X.
Key features
- Persistent remote apps
- HTML5 browser client
- Audio and clipboard forwarding
- Seamless windows
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Active community (2.9k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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