[Parti-discuss] [PATCH] Add "xpra standalone" subcommand

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Fri Aug 8 04:57:45 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Mark Seaborn <mrs at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
> This patch adds a "standalone" subcommand to xpra.
>
> "xpra standalone COMMAND ARGS..." runs the given command so that the X
> display is proxied by xpra.  This is useful for testing.  The xpra
> client and server are run within the same process, although they still
> communicate through a socket.

NB that with the code under discussion in the other thread, this
effect can be achieved as something like:
  xpra start :20 --start-child="COMMAND ARGS" --start-child="xpra attach :20"
(Or you can even leave off the second :20 if there are no other xpra
servers running on the current machine.)

-- Nathaniel



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