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Posted Jun 16, 2025 13:13 UTC (Mon) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Xlibre by intelfx
Parent article: Ubuntu 25.10 to drop support for GNOME on Xorg

Is there a replacement for XPRA?

I still use ssh -X for some very graphically-limited apps - xterm mostly - but for anything using a modern toolkit you really need XPRA to get good performance. And the persistence / immunity to transient network issues/moves is a nice bonus in some cases; and absolutely essential in other cases. E.g., I use xpra to access the same instance of an app between work and home, without having to restart the app and my flow in it.

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Posted Jun 16, 2025 16:13 UTC (Mon) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

> Is there a replacement for XPRA?
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> I still use ssh -X for some very graphically-limited apps - xterm mostly - but for anything using a modern toolkit you really need XPRA to get good performance.

Waypipe does not need anything like Xpra to get good performance; you get it by default.

> And the persistence / immunity to transient network issues/moves is a nice bonus in some cases

There is no persistence, however. Earlier versions of Waypipe had rudimentary support for reconnection, but it was since dropped — not sure why, perhaps lack of interest on the sole developer's part.

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Posted Jun 17, 2025 1:58 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I think in other cases with Wayland the compositors just support RDP or VNC output, VNC being slow but simple and RDP working well over WAN links with various acceleration options available in the protocol (maybe including just encoding as a video stream, same as any modern WebRTC video conferencing and desktop sharing system) if the server takes advantage of them, degrading to something like VNC if not. I think Waypipe is more for the single-app forwarding use case (although I believe RDP protocol is capable of single-app forwarding), and I'd be super happy when it gets integrated directly into Portable OpenSSH or as a Linux-distro maintained extension for the popular platforms.

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Posted Jun 17, 2025 8:50 UTC (Tue) by vasvir (subscriber, #92389) [Link] (1 responses)

Well there is wprs (xpra for wayland): https://github.com/wayland-transpositor/wprs

I use it as my daily driver and while it has its issues it is workable...

I have filed some bug reports and some of them have been fixed.

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Posted Jun 17, 2025 9:50 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

Great news, thanks for the link!